Resilience is the capacity of individuals, communities, institutions, businesses, and systems within a city to survive, adapt, and grow no matter what kinds of chronic stresses and acute shocks they experience.1 A resilient city can adapt to a variety of shocks and stresses while still providing essential services to its residents, especially the poor and vulnerable. With most of the global population and capital goods concentrated in urban areas, cities are key to social development and economic prosperity. They are drivers of national economic growth and innovation and act as cultural and creative centers. But urbanization also brings challenges. With a greater concentration of people, assets, and infrastructure in urban areas, an increasingly complex range of shocks and stresses can put in jeopardy human wellbeing and hard-won development gains. Natural disasters like storms, droughts, and earthquakes are not the only risks that cities face. Cities are also vulnerable to economic downturns, crime and violence, public health epidemics, and infrastructure failure. These shocks and stresses can have devastating effects, bringing some or all of an urban system to a halt, and possibly causing asse
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