New York, LA and London top resilient cities index

New York, Los Angeles and London were ranked top for overall resilience in a new assessment of 25 major global cities by Economist Impact. Lagos, Dhaka and Cairo received the lowest resilience scores overall.

The research defines urban resilience as “a city’s ability to avoid, withstand and recover from shocks, such as natural disasters, and from long-term stresses such as poverty, decrepit infrastructure or migration.”

Cities were scored on 19 indicators and 41 sub‑indicators across four key areas of resilience: critical infrastructure, environment, socio-institutional, and economic resilience.

Jonathan Birdwell, Global Head of Policy and Insights at Economist Impact, said: "It is ...