ResilientCity.org is a not-for-profit website focused on developing creative, practical, and implementable urban planning and building design strategies that address the combined problems of climate change, global population growth, and peak oil with the purpose of creating more resilient cities.

There is an important discourse emerging among social scientists, environmentalists, architects, and urban planners about how our cities should deal with the looming and linked threats of climate changes and energy decent as a result of peak oil in the context of continued global population growth. This website was created to facilitate and further this discourse.

A couple of months ago they launched their first Design Ideas Competition to both encourage exploration of ResilientCity planning and design, as well as to generate useful exemplars for the Resources section of the website. The  competition resulted in more than 50 registrations and 22 formal entries received from around the globe, including proposals centered on cities in India, Mexico, Israel, Tibet, Germany, as well as the USA and Canada.  Visit the website to view the winning entries.

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