City resilience framework – 2024 edition

Resources are scarcer, competition for investment greater, and the pace of change is faster. Pandemics, climate change, AI, migration, infrastructure deficits and increasing inequity, pose increasing threats to urban living.

Ten years ago, the City Resilience Framework was published by Arup, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation. It provided a new way to help leaders, across the public and private sector, to identify and respond to the risks and uncertainties they faced.

In the decade that has followed, the concept of resilience has become more familiar across society and culture; but given its complexity, taking action to achieve it remains as challenging a task as ever.

Informed by the experiences of cities and their Chief Resilience Officers over the last ten years, Arup with the support of the Resilient Cities Network has updated the City Resilience Framework (CRF’24) to help cities accelerate action.

The goal with this new edition is to provide a more accessible tool, one that will help a wider cohort of leaders, planners and investors to embrace collaborative and coordinated action on the resilience priorities their cities face.

CRF’24 now empowers improvements at city, neighborhood or precinct levels, including masterplans for new developments and urban regeneration. It helps to pose the right questions, to identify the right priorities, and achieve coordinated action across departments and stakeholders.

Benefits of CRF’24:
1. A simplified framework, with goals based on best practice and industry standards

2. Provides a common language around resilience, promoting a shared understanding and facilitating better engagement with diverse stakeholders

3. Encourages systemic thinking by identifying interdependencies between objectives.

4. Identifies which goals to prioritize, based on city-wide and local challenges

5. Provides a straightforward methodology to assess a masterplan’s potential performance

6. Helps cities evaluate projects to ensure that they demonstrate cross-cutting resilience outcomes and better meet the funding criteria of IFIs or climate funds

source :

https://resilientcitiesnetwork.org/city-resilience-framework-2024-edition