1. Building Resilient Urban Communities September 11 th, 2012

2. Arriata Chakos Urban Resilience Strategies Mary Comerio UC Berkeley Jayant R Kalagnanam IBM Mark Baker Esri

3. Introduction A timely issue? Examples of little pre planning for current events. Greater dialogue on the level of planning and rebuilding communities for greater resilience. Impacts of the emergency are greater as they do not have the resilience plans in place.

4. Pre Disaster Resilience Initiatives Elements of a Resilience Plan : - Heath - Housing - Education - Environment - Economy - Institutions - Infrastructure What is our event timeline for planning? Compressed Planning – relies on resources available and the needs. Issues of implementation: - Political/social issues involved with resilience implementation. - Logistics - Budget

5. Post Disaster Planning - Assessment. - Do we have the right tools to assess the impacts for rebuilding? - Role of Social media during an event. - What does a city rebuild to replace. - Observe the past, or build for the new. - Is it ‘smart’ - Is it ‘resilient’ - The cycle of resilience planning? - SF Example from 1989 - Preparation for the next event.

6. Role of Technology Operations level response tools and relevance to the planning activities - What is available and what is needed? Getting the right picture of the environment - ‘what, where, when’. Situational awareness in real time during an event, - Simulation models, spatial-temporal view of resource availability to provide Information Aggregate the remote and the local: multi- modal information from various sources e.g. radar, satellites, sensors…

7. Summary