Urban risk and planning

Across the U.S., communities are transforming aging malls, golf courses, and parking lots into walkable neighborhoods that reduce car dependency and help residents adapt to extreme weather.

Beyond their aesthetic value, living walls perform multiple environmental functions. Vegetation provides shading, intercepts solar radiation and contributes to evapotranspiration processes that can moderate temperatures within and around buildings.

Preparing for a drier future does not mean preparing for milder floods. Cities need to prepare for contradictory challenge of managing both declining water availability and increasingly destructive rainfall extremes.

This study uses multi-period difference-in-differences analysis to find China’s Climate-Resilient Cities Policy increases per capita grain production beyond urban areas, with stronger effects along the Hu Huanyong Line and in resource-based cities.

This study develops dynamic population impact maps for the Northern Tiber District of Metropolitan Rome (Italy) by integrating flood hazard, population vulnerability, and time-varying population exposure into a unified risk framework.

This knowledge paper examines how spatial and territorial planning can help operationalise Risk Informed Development (RID).