City Resilience

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Establishment of a framework that fosters collaborative efforts between diverse public, private, and academic partners to enhance disaster mitigation, community resilience and economic growth.
First responder.jpg Information for First Responders on Maintaining Operational Capabilities During a Pandemic
First responders have a critical role in pre-hospital emergency care and must continue to provide this essential service and fill the many emergency response roles in a community.
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The project aims to revolutionize severe weather warnings through Next Gen communications and networking. Focusing on hyper-local, user-driven, context-aware alerts, it leverages mobile phones and hyper-local data for customized warnings, enhancing response and outcomes.
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The School Organized Locally Assisted Community Emergency‐Management (SOLACE) project focused on the use of a community school as a community resilience hub for its surrounding community. Community Resilience Hubs (CRHs) can be defined as community‐serving facilities augmented to support residents and coordinate resource distribution of resources and services to the surrounding community. This project focused specifically on the use of a CRM to support community member needs before, during, or after a natural hazard event and on developing a community‐led sociotechnical infrastructure framework for adapting a public school (Buckman Elementary School) as the pilot CRH. In 2022, this project received a NSF Planning Grant.
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Extreme heat and heatwaves are becoming a significant concern for many world cities and communities, and it's rapidly worsening due to the impact of climate change. Extreme heat events have severe impacts on ecosystems, infrastructure, human health, and economies. These heatwaves are not only a consequence of escalating global temperatures, but they also symbolize an acute emergency for urban environments worldwide In several locations the extreme heat is exacerbated by poor air quality caused by smoke from wildfires.

Extreme heat and heatwaves are becoming a significant concern for many world cities and communities, and it's rapidly worsening due to the impact of climate change. Extreme Urban areas, characterized by their dense populations and significant infrastructural development, have become epicenters for extreme heat impacts. This phenomenon is exacerbated by the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, wherein the lack of vegetation and high prevalence of heat-absorbing materials lead to significantly warmer conditions in cities compared to their rural surroundings. The interplay of climate change, urbanization, and socio-economic factors means that heat risks in cities are escalating at an alarming rate.

The consequences of increasing urban heat are manifold and far-reaching. heatwaves pose considerable threats to urban infrastructure, disrupting essential services, exacerbating energy demands, and straining resources. Simultaneously, health concerns range from heat stress and heat-related illnesses to exacerbated chronic conditions and increased mortality rates. The ripple effects of extreme heat events can thus perpetuate socio-economic disparities, destabilize local economies, and compromise overall urban sustainability.

In this section, we will show how to identify the severity of extreme heat events and identify how to implement actionable adaptive and mitigative strategies to reduce risk and increase resilience. We will present case studies from cities across the globe, demonstrating the universal nature of this crisis and the range of strategies combining infrastructural changes, policy interventions, technological advancements, and community engagement currently being deployed.


  • Transportation
  • Utilities (Energy/Water/Waste Management)
  • City Data Platform
  • Public Wireless / Broadband
  • Cybersecurity and Privacy
  • Public Safety
  • Agriculture and Rural
  • Smart Buildings
  • Education
  • Health and Thriving Communities

Collectively, these SuperClusters represented over 120 participating city and technology developer teams, and a portfolio of over 130 Smart City Applications, each of which contributes to some aspect of improving the resilience, health, safety, or quality of life within a connected community.

The next section offers a general approach for designing and implementing a Smart Public Safety Program within a Smart and Connected Community. Like this Blueprint, itself, the approach is based on the initial work of the PSSC during its first year, and will be expanded with input from PSSC member communities and Action Clusters, based on the real-world experience of developing, piloting, and implementing smart technology applications for public safety, disaster response and recovery, and community resilience.