Resilient infrastructure

Defining ‘Reliable’ Infrastructure as a Key Performance Metric for City Resilience

While there are numerous frameworks assisting cities in establishing sustainability and resilience goals, I have yet to find one that...

Dependency model: reliable infrastructure and the resilient, sustainable, and livable city

There are interwoven relationships between a city’s physical infrastructure and the dependence on its reliable functioning by societal...

Addressing the Infrastructure Decay Rate in US Cities: the case for a paradigm shift in information

WISRD contributed a chapter to a new book: Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure The current paradigm used by...

Foundational infrastructure framework for city resilience

The city is a complex interdependent system of natural, social, and structural systems – a ‘system of systems.’ Each system is important...

Integrating a City’s Existing Infrastructure Vulnerabilities for Achieving City Resilience Goals

Cities are setting both sustainability and resilience goals that recognize the significant pressures that cities will face over the...