Resilient & Future Cities
📋 What it is
Resilience is a city’s ability to absorb shocks — floods, blackouts, growth — and keep working or bounce back fast.
🗣️ Coach says
A resilient city is one that bends without breaking. It plans for floods, power cuts and sudden growth ahead of time, with backups and flexible design. Resilience is the difference between a shock that’s a headache and one that’s a disaster.
🧠 Memory hook
Resilient = bends without breaking. Plan for shocks BEFORE they hit.
😂 Giggle
What did the glass window say to the brick wall?
"I can see right through your issues!"
😲 Whoa!
After major floods, some cities now build “sponge” parks designed to soak up and store storm water instead of fighting it.
✅ Quick check: What does it mean for a city to be “resilient”?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
It can absorb shocks (floods, blackouts, rapid growth) and keep functioning or recover quickly, because it planned and built for them.
Resilience is the forward-looking capstone of modern city design.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Name one shock a city near you could face and one way it could prepare to bounce back.