Building Community Resilience: From the Ground Up

The Power of the Local

Fostering urban livability and resilience

Vancouver, CanadaJuly, 2013

Cities have become the dominant global human habitat of this century in terms of

geography, experience, constituency, and influence

Morgan Grove

Cities: Managing Densely Settled Social-Ecological Systems, 2008

Misanthropy: un-naturalPatriarchy: uncontrollablePathology: sick, a problemTheology: sinfulMorality: badMorphology: pariah

Science: labBiology: hive

Physics: combustionEcology: ecosystem

Re-deem

Re-mediate

Re-generate

Re-habilitate

Re-claim

Re-vitalize

Re-store

Re-build

Re-new

Re-birth

Enabling self-organization

as the underpinning of city livability,

resilience and innovation

Systems/Capital in a City

Financial

Social

Bonding

BridgingSpiritual

Natural

Cultural

Tips

- Enable self-organization to build indigenous resilience across sectors/disciplines

- Strengthen assets- Democratize data, embrace ‘social’ media- Distant detached decision-making dooms

democracy: Localize- Identity-reinforcing ‘hubs’ : peer-to-peer

networks- make the connection to the ‘other’: vehicles that

enable horizontal connection: Art and Culture

A ‘problem’ in a city …

is work that still needs doing