Resilient cities
The resilient cities page is supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, creators of the
Resilient Cities challenge
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A walking cure for Sarcellitis: can trails unite Paris's city and suburbs?To many city residents the banlieues surrounding Paris represent a dystopian vision made real – all high-rises and social isolation. Can new walking tours and a 300-mile track mend centuries of misunderstanding and distrust?
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New anti-homeless architecture: Seattle uses bike racks to block rough sleepersPolice cleared a homeless camp before the transport department filled the pavement with unneeded bike racks – a clear case of hostile architecture which does not address the problem, say campaigners -
‘The bayou's alive’: ignoring it could kill HoustonAmerica’s fourth largest city is built on an ancient river network that flooded catastrophically after Hurricane Harvey. With 400,000 homes in the watershed, achieving resilience is the Texan boom town’s greatest challenge -
What would an earthquake-proof city look like?It is cities where the most lives can be saved in earthquakes – here are their smartest ideas so far -
Portraits of the 'periferia': 'The pulse of São Paulo comes from its periphery'From the 16-year-old mother who occupied a school, to the cleaner who opened a nightclub, it’s often women who are leaders on the city’s embattled outskirts
The debate
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A garden bridge that works: how Seoul succeeded where London failedSeoul’s ambitious Skygarden – which revives a disused elevated 1970s highway with 24,000 plants – is opening
In depth
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'They came while we were asleep': Lagos residents tell of brutal evictionsThree times in the past six months, the waterfront slums of Lagos have been forcibly – and often violently – evicted by the government -
The story of the Great GarudaForget Venice. The fastest-sinking city is the Indonesian capital, parts of which are dropping at 25cm a year. Can an outlandish plan for a giant seawall and luxury waterworld city in the shape of a mythical bird save Jakarta from drowning? -
The empathy machine: can VR stop bad city developments before they happen?From ‘meeting’ a resident affected by HS2 to ‘cycling’ along a proposed bike lane through the city, VR can have a powerful impact in the real world -
America's geography of wealth: the shrinking urban middle class visualisedThe economic fates of diverse cities such as San Francisco, New York and Detroit would seem to be vastly different – but they share a common thread
What would a truly disabled-accessible city look like?