Tomorrows Cities

Launch of the Tomorrow's Cities global synthesis report. The event will bring together partners who have developed and used the Tomorrow's Cities Decision Support Environment (TCDSE) approach for dialogue with the UN-HABITAT community. The TCDSE provides urban decision-makers a mechanism to extend existing inclusive urban planning and risk assessment methods into the future. This is key for addressing the triple challenges of climate risk, rapid urbanization and ongoing urban injustice. The TCDSE has been developed and applied in nine cities: Nairobi (Kenya), Quito (Ecuador), Rapti and Khokana (Nepal), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Cox's Bazar and Chattogram (Bangladesh), Nablus (Palestine) and Istanbul (Turkey). The event will link international policy debate on United Nations Habitat Assembly Resolution 2/9 to create a human settlements resilience framework for early warning, foresight, risk reduction, crisis response, and post-crisis recovery and reconstruction with detailed empirical evidence form these partner cities. Dialogue with the audience will extend this to collectively work to a definition of urban resilience that can encompass the full range of urban visioning tools and approaches that can extend beyond the near-term risk reduction and early warning tools currently available.