Monday, May 4, 2015
Rockefeller's Rodin Discusses City Resiliency on Innovation Hub
Chances are, you’re always flirting with disaster. Whether you live in the drought-ridden West, the hurricane-prone Southeast, Tornado Alley in the Midwest, or the Northeast — where epic snowstorms can shut down a city — complete safety is virtually unobtainable.
But cities can weather these figurative, and literal, storms. And they can weather them by becoming resilient, says Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Resilience, Rodin says, is “the capacity to prepare effectively, to rebound more quickly if something bad does happen, and then to revitalize and grow as a result of a stressor or a shock, rather than just return to the same.” And this capacity is becoming more and more important to the modern metropolis, given that aging infrastructures and climate change have added pressure to the already-complex task of housing and feeding millions of people....