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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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Contact details

Clive HarridgeWood

clive.harridge@woodplc.com

+44 (0) 7889 247849

www.woodplc.