Workshop about public space in India: The Mumbai report - florian masson. Workshop about public space in India: The Mumbai report I took a part in a workshop in India with my french school. We analysed how indian people use the urban public space in the megalopolis of Mumbai. We took a lot of pictures of these activities, and re-draw them thanks to Adobe Illustrator. We did a book with all this drawings. Back in France, we had do to individuals projects. Then, I add many ways of feeding, many ways for being moved without moving, and many services from slim people to fat people.
Design for A Change: Informal Settlements and Low-Income Housing in India, Informal Settlements Panel - 2.12.11. Resilient Design: Is Resilience the New Sustainability? Ever since Hurricane Sandy wrought havoc on the East Coast, ‘resilient design’ has been a hot topic of conversation — and not just amongst architects and designers, but politicians, engineers and city planners as well. In November 2012, ‘Resilient Design’ was a trending search term in Google, moving from near obscurity in the months before the devastating super storm to a popular catchphrase post-Sandy.
Natural disasters like this, and more recently the typhoon that hit the Philippines in early November, serve to remind those of us in the green design community that while building with pure “save-the-earth” ecological motivation is certainly important, low-VOC-paints and LEED points don’t matter much if a building becomes uninhabitable due to flooding, earthquake, power outages or some other natural or manmade disaster.
That’s where resilient design comes into play. So What Does ‘Resilient Design’ Entail When It Comes to Building? Resiliency in Commercial Building Design Fire Resistance.
Newies. :) Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy : Building Resilience - Integration Climate and Disaster Risk into Resilience. 1. Layout (Gesamterscheinung, optische Wirkung,…) by Anja Stoltz on Prezi. World Health Organization. Infrastruktur indien - seminararbeit. How Three Cities Are Solving Water Challenges. Water sustains life on Earth, but it's also one of the biggest resilience challenges of the 21st century. From rising sea levels to limited drinking water supplies, see how three of our Resilient Cities are tackling their biggest water challenges: On one end of the spectrum, El Paso, a Texas border city in the desert, faces low annual rainfall and a limited water supply.
Da Nang, which sits on low-lying Vietnamese coastline, gets hit by at least one increasingly severe typhoon each year. And in a worst-case scenario, Vejle, Denmark, could be underwater by the year 2100 because of climate change. As we mark World Water Day this Saturday, learn more about how each of these cities are tackling their biggest water challenges. Filter by Focus Area: 100 Resilient Cities The Age of the City-State: Which Cities Most Dominate Their Countries? 100 Resilient Cities Crowdsourcing Ideas for Greener Cities Green cities are resilient cities. The Transformation of Medellín Provides a Model for Cities Worldwide. A version of this post also appeared on 100 Resilient Cities and The Guardian. Coastal flooding could produce damages costing $1 trillion a year by 2050.
Resilience is more than just disaster response—it equips cities to deal with a range of challenges before they happen, potentially saving billions of dollars. 25% of small businesses that fail due to a shock never recover. By making a series of innovative, public investments, Medellín now has the tools to rebound much more quickly from disruptions. Several weeks ago, a mudslide devastated the community of Oso in Washington. Days later, down the coast, a 5.1-magnitude earthquake hit Los Angeles. Neither of these events was entirely unpredictable, nor completely preventable. Photocredit: Raul Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images These events take both a human and an economic toll. Resilience is more than just disaster response—it equips cities to deal with a range of challenges before they happen, saving cities potentially billions of dollars.
Three Components for Successful Resilience Building. Southeast Asia is highly vulnerabile to the effects of climate change. Facing increased storm surges and flooding, the livelihoods and economic well-being of many are threatened. The work of Rockefeller Foundation initiatives, Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network, 100 Resilient Cities, and our broader climate change resilience work, aim to increase the capacity of individuals, communities, and systems to adapt, grow and/or transform as different stresses and shocks arise.
Part of the work of the Strategic Research team is to monitor trends and research related to these initiatives from the perspective of stakeholders living in regions where the projects are taking place. In a recent report from Asian Trends Monitoring Bulletin entitled, “A Storm is Brewing… Is Asia Ready?” , researchers from the Lee Kwan Yew School for Public Policy, performed an analysis of 124 climate change adaptation projects across Southeast Asia. Download the Report Filter by Focus Area: Resilience rockefeller foundation. We live in a world of increasing dynamism and volatility, where technology and greater interconnectedness have accelerated change and altered the way people live. Resilience is the capacity of individuals, communities and systems to survive, adapt, and grow in the face of stress and shocks, and even transform when conditions require it.
Building resilience is about making people, communities and systems better prepared to withstand catastrophic events – both natural and manmade – and able to bounce back more quickly and emerge stronger from these shocks and stresses. Humans are not born with resilience – we learn it, adapt it, and improve upon it. The same is true for organizations, systems and societies. There are some core characteristics that all resilient systems share and demonstrate, both in good times and in times of stress: Smartcitizens.
MGI_Indias_urban_awakening_full_report. Urbanisation_report. India's pride:10 outstanding infrastructure projects. Major infrastructure projects including swanky airports are changing India’s profile as an attractive and enterprising destination. A welcome gift to air travellers is the new integrated terminal at Kolkata's Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport.
Opened in January 2013, the state-of-the-art integrated terminal has been built at a cost of Rs 2,325 crore (Rs 23.25 billion) by a Thai-Indian consortium, Italian-Thai Development Public Co -ITD Cementation. The new terminal can handle 25 million passengers annually. Another impressive project is the swanky Terminal 2 at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai is all set to open in September this year. The Terminal 2, or T2 has been built with a state-of-the-art four-level terminal with an area of over 4,39,000 sq. mts. The new terminal built by Mumbai International Airport Pvt. Take at look at some of the most outstanding projects in India as listed by The Economic Times… Click NEXT to read more... Stanford Social Innovation Review: Informing and Inspiring Leaders of Social Change.