Resilient Houston, the City of Houston’s resilience strategy, links existing efforts with new ones that will collectively work to protect Houston against future disasters—from hurricanes to extreme heat waves—and chronic stresses such as aging infrastructure, poor air quality, and flooding. Resilient Houston sets 18 high-level targets across 5 scales.

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February 2020

Location: Houston, TX

Client: City of Houston

Project Team: Rockefeller Foundation, 100 Resilient Cities, Global Resilient Cities Network, The Water Institute of the gulf, HR&A Advisors, Asakura Robinson, The Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Bloomberg Associates

Key Team Members: Katie Coyne, Alexandra Miller

Awards:

• 2020 Resilient Achievement Gold Award, American Planning Association Texas Chapter

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