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Urban Resilience:
Commonwealth and
Global Perspectives
Clive Harridge
Head of Planning, Transport & Design, Wood
Environment & Infrastructure Solutions UK Ltd
Secretary-General, Commonwealth Association of
Planners
Presentation Outline
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• Resilience - urban challenges– Global context
– Scale and character of urban growth
– Informal / unplanned development
- Lack of skilled professionals
• Resilience - Need for an integrated
planned approach to resilience
• Resilience - addressing the challenges
A presentation by Wood.
▪ Sustainable Development Goals, Agenda 2030
▪ The New Urban Agenda
“The battle for sustainable development will be won or lost in cities.
There is a need for a radical paradigm shift in the way cities and
human settlements are planned, developed, governed and managed.
The decisions we make today will shape our common urban future.”
Global context for resilience
Global challenge – scale of urban growth
• Global population to rise from 3.4 to 6.4 billion people in 35 years
• % living in cities: 1913 – 10% , 2013 - 50%, 2050 -70%
• In Commonwealth:
0.75 billion people live in urban areas - growing at 65,000 / day, 23.5 million pa
Almost half annual urban growth is in slums (Slum dwellers growing 10m pa
2010: 400m+ live in slums / 50% of urban population
.
Characteristics of urban growth
Sample of 200 cities from all 4,231 cities that had 100,000 people
or more in 2010.
Research by Marron Institute, New York University
Population Growth Developed vs. Developing
Between 2015 and 2050 the urban population
in Less Developed Countries will increase by
2.35 billion, or 18 times the expected increase
of 130 million in More Developed Countries.
Global challenge – Lack of skilled professionals
Key findings
- Critical lack of capacity in many countries
- Lack of capacity most acute in countries which are
rapidly urbanising and most vulnerable
- Lack of education and institutional capacity to grow
profession fast enough
- Comparable findings in other built environment
professions
CAP Survey of the planning profession in the Commonwealth
Survey results - number of planners / population
Population per individual member of national
planning association
Addressing the challenges – need for integrated
and planned approach to resilience
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16 A presentation by Wood.
Resilience – physical infrastructure needs
• $3.3 trillion pa needed to fund urban infrastructure to
2030 to support growth. |Currently only $2.5 trillion.
(McKinsey)
• $1 trillion pa needed in developing countries to
bridge gap between what is being built and what is
needed (World Bank)
• Compared to developing country peers, lower &
middle income cities are heavily dependent on
national subsidy
• Public sector must explore ways to attract significant
more private sector financing above the 20-30%
share it currently holds (ADB)
The market challenge in delivering resilient infrastructure
18 6/7/2019 Athanasios Kourniotis
Addressing resilience – need for integrated approach
Integrated approach - key role for planning
Climate Resilience & Sustainability Integration into Project Delivery
19 A presentation by Wood.
6 Steps:
1. Develop vision for future urban growth
2. Map existing city
3. Identify appropriate areas for new urban
growth
4. Structure the growth areas
5. Implement the urban structure
6. Detailed planning at neighbourhood level
A Toolkit for Mayors and Urban Practitioners
Initiative
Launched at
CAP
Conference
2016
Tested and
developed
with first
pilot city
Initial
structured
toolkit
Action
programme
in three
contrasting
contexts
Developing
online
toolkit
Adapted for
use by
education
institutions
as online
module
Testing the toolkit
Toolkit being tested in Bo, Sierra Leone
with support of One World Link, Turleys,
and CAP
Bo, Sierra Leone
174,369
583,000
Source: New York University, 2017
Base plans – Bo, Sierra Leone
23 A presentation by Wood.
Bo, Outputs from preliminary workshops
PLANNERS 4 CLIMATE ACTION
A Global initiative by Planners: P4CA
P4CA
• Launched at COP-23, Bonn 2017
• P4CA is placed under the UNFCCC’s
Marrakesh Partnership of non-State
actors for Global Climate Action. It is
registered under the NAZCA (Non-State
Actors Zone for Climate Action) Platform.
Our Mission
Catalyze and accelerate climate action through responsible and
transformative urban and regional planning:
1. PRACTICE: Integrate climate change in the professional practices
of all planners and their institutions through integrated
approaches that reduce emissions, and prepare human
settlements to adapt to climate change.
2. CAPACITY-BUILDING: Build the capacity of all planners by
ensuring that all graduate-level urban/regional planning curricula
prepare planners to be effective climate change professionals.
3. RESEARCH: Support and commission research that can
strengthen knowledge at the intersection of planning practices
and climate change.
P4CA – Goal / Objectives
Our Member OrganizationsP4CA - members
100RC Initiative
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• Created by Rockefeller Foundation in 2013
• Four pathways to resilience
- City Resilience Officer
- Resilience strategy
- Access to partners in public/ private sectors
- Access to network of members cities
• Aims to achieve resilience dividend
• Access to range of Resilience tools
• The Resilience Screen and access to funding (TURF)
• City Resilience Framework – elements to be addressed to achieve resilience:
- Health / well being
- Economy and society
- Infrastructure / environment
- Leadership and strategy
• Need to address resilience in context of SDGs
• Need for cross discipline integrated working
• Planning has central and key integrative role in delivering resilience
• Need for new and effective approaches
• Urgent need to address capacity shortages in built environment professions
• Commonwealth has key role – CHOGM 2020
Conclusions
30 A presentation by Wood.
