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Global cities join Designing City Resilience summit
26 April 2015
by Richard Forster
Ten cities have confirmed their participation in Designing City Resilience, the international summit that aims to change the way cities are planned, designed and built.
Chennai, Glasgow, Barcelona, Melbourne, Bristol, Manchester, Austin (Texas), New York, Rome and Rio de Janeiro will share their journeys towards greater city resilience at the event, being held in London on 16 and 17 June.
The cities have committed to share their key resilience challenges and barriers to overcoming them and to input into the City Resilience Challenge, the workshop running over both days of the summit.
Multidisciplinary groups of participants, including Chief Resilience Officers, mayors and senior government officials, will tackle the real-life challenges these cities face, prototyping ideas and sharing knowledge. The workshop aims to forge international relationships and deliver real change in helping cities become more resilient.
“We are delighted that these global cities have agreed to share their challenges at the summit,” said Peter Oborn, RIBA Vice President, International, and Chair of Designing City Resilience’s editorial panel. “Their input is a crucial part of what we are aiming to achieve through this event: to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas between professionals involved in design and construction; development and infrastructure; city leadership and governance; insurance and finance; and technology and communications.”
Commenting on becoming one of the ‘Contributing Cities’, Lord Peter Smith, Chair of Greater Manchester Combined Authority and leader of Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council, said: “We are looking forward to taking part in Designing City Resilience and engaging with colleagues from cities across the world to explore how urban resilience can be facilitated and strengthened.”
Designing City Resilience will be held on 16 and 17 June, at 66 Portland Place, London. For more information and to book a place at the event, visit www.designingcityresilience.com.
Visit the Facebook page: facebook.com/DesigningCityResilience and follow the summit on Twitter: @rescities/#rescities; connect via LinkedIn; or see the Youtube channel.
