Resilient Cities: Protecting Tomorrow’s Urbanites

Environments for Healthy Citizens

Research suggests that health-targeted spending has a disproportionately high return on investment and may even increase happiness levels. To develop productive communities – especially as the global population ages – it’s essential that urban areas implement schemes to nudge healthy behaviours, from low-pollution transport to soothing, nature-saturated environments.

Blueprints for Better Buildings

Future-aware cities are prioritising eco-friendly construction to avoid mass climate dislocation. Enter savvy building conversions and legally mandated sustainable development. Post-pandemic, there’s “a once-in-a-hundred-years opportunity [to build better cities], and we need to take it”, according to Richard Florida, American urbanist and professor. For more, see Towards Sustainable Construction.

Human-Centric Infrastructure

The shift towards clean energy infrastructure presents an opportunity to rethink how utilities can operate on a more human scale and harmonise with urban landscapes. Next-gen initiatives merge appealing aesthetics with functionality as they cleverly reallocate resources to where they’re most needed and reduce cities’ carbon footprints.

Purpose-Built Cities

With climate change threatening well-established cities, some regions are relocating their key metropolises to areas with favourable environments – a topic introduced in Redefining Communities. These initiatives provide a glimpse into the amenities and attributes most desired by tomorrow’s citizens – insights that benefit purpose-built and pre-existing cosmopolitan centres alike.