#ForewordFriday: Urban Resilience Project Edition

By Katharine Sucher / On July 29th, 2016
Bummed our Free Summe Read e-book promotion is over? Fear not! You can still get great content from Island Press. For those last minute summer vacations, bring along our collection of 2015 Urban Resilience Project content in Resilience Matters: Forging a Greener, Fairer Future for All. You'll find a wide-ranging series of articles, blogs, and op-eds from a diverse group of thinkers including activists, academics, architects, and more.

#ForewordFriday: Resilience Matters Edition

By Katharine Sucher / On April 29th, 2016
In an era rocked by climate change and other disruptions, our cities must be resilient to survive and thrive. But what does that mean, exactly? How can we address the problems facing cities today—poverty, job loss, crumbling infrastructure, pollution—while preparing for an uncertain tomorrow? To help answer those questions, Island Press launched the Urban Resilience Project, with support from The Kresge Foundation and the JPB Foundation. We began by reaching out to a diverse group of thinkers—activists, academics, architects and many others.