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Future Visioning for Pro-poor Disaster Risk Reduction in Tomorrow's Cities: Activities Toolbox
(2023-01)This document sets guidelines for Future Visioning within 'Tomorrow’s Cities Decision Support Environment'. It is meant to guide the elaboration, monitoring and evaluation of visioning approaches in the cities that ... -
Understanding Vulnerabilities through an intersectional lens in Khokana, Kathmandu, Nepal
(2022-09)This working paper analyses and presents preliminary conclusions of TC's researchers study of Khokana, Nepal, a traditional and small Newari village about 8 kilometers south of Kathmandu. Its objective was to better ... -
Political economy of urban change: contestations and contradictions in urban development in Kathmandu Valley focusing on a case of Southern Part of Lalitpur Metropolitan City
(Tomorrow's Cities project team, 2022-04)Being one of the top ten fastest urbanizing countries in the world with almost 60% urban areas, Nepal and mostly Kathmandu valley (KV), is undergoing rapid urban transition of spatial, demographic and economic changes, ... -
Preliminary investigation of multi-hazard resilience analysis for urban transportation networks and data availability for hazard models and vulnerability of physical objects
(2022-04)HUB-Istanbul work package (WP) 2.6 aims to develop tools to analyse the multi-hazard resilience of urban transportation network in complex and evolving metropolitan environment, and propose a demonstrative application to ... -
Disaster resilience analysis of urban transportation networks to support decision-making on planning and expansion
(2022-04)HUB-Istanbul work package (WP) 2.6 aims to evaluate multi-hazard resilience analysis of urban transportation networks and suggest the potential approach for analysing the case study area, Fikirtepe, Istanbul, Turkey. ... -
Production of risks and local risk governance in Kathmandu Valley
(Tomorrow's Cities, 2021-02)This research is a part of the UKRI GCRF funded project Tomorrow’s Cities, which has the objective to encourage pro-poor risk-sensitive planning in Istanbul, Kathmandu, Nairobi and Quito. It contributes to the first of its ... -
Transversalización del Enfoque de Derechos en el Plan Metropolitano de Desarrollo y Ordenamiento Territorial del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito
(Tomorrow's Cities, 2020-12)1. Antecedentes La Secretaría General de Planificación, en coordinación con el Instituto Metropolitano de Planificación Urbana, el Instituto de la Ciudad y la Secretaría de Territorio, Hábitat y Vivienda, se encuentra ... -
Transversalizaci n del Enfoque de Derechos en el Plan Metropolitano de Desarrollo y Ordenamiento Territorial del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito
(Tomorrow's Cities, 2020-12)La Secretaría General de Planificación, en coordinación con el Instituto Metropolitano de Planificación Urbana, el Instituto de la Ciudad y la Secretaría de Territorio, Hábitat y Vivienda, se encuentra elaborando el Plan ... -
Workshop Synthesis and Actionable Learning Report - The Quito Hub
(Tomorrow's Cities, 2020-10)The two Review and Learning Workshops of the Quito Hub took place on the 4th and 11th September 2020. These workshops aimed at analysing and discussing the challenges and opportunities of our work until now, and at learning ... -
Prevención del riesgo futuro – Ambiente de respaldo para la toma de decisiones (DSE) Laboratorio urbano para la reducción del riesgo de desastre – Nota conceptual
(Tomorrow's Cities, 2022-01)El Centro Ciudades del Mañana (Tomorrow’s Cities), conformado por la Escuela Politécnica Nacional, la Universidad San Francisco de Quito, la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Flacso-Ecuador, y de varias ... -
Laboratorio Urbano para la reduccion del riesgo de desastres
(Tomorrow's Cities project team, 2021-11-25)El Centro de investigación aplicada Ciudades del Mañana “Tomorrow’s Cities - Urban Risk in Transition” es impulsado por el Gobierno del Reino Unido en cuatro ciudades del mundo: Estambul (Turquía), Kathmandu (Nepal), Nairobi ... -
Identification of structural properties of the Incirli Pedestrian Bridge and structural response analysis
(Tomorrow's Cities project team, 2021-02)Incirli Pedestrian bridge links the Bakirköy and Bahçelievler districts of Istanbul by crossing over the D100 highway and being exposed to heavy pedestrian traffic in peak-hours, since it is the only way to reach the ... -
Earthquake performance of Cevizlibağ Metrobus Overpass
(Tomorrow's Cities project team, 2020-03)Cevizlibağ Metrobus Overpass has a very important place in Istanbul transportation due to its high pedestrian density and its location on the main road with heavy vehicle traffic. Damage to the Cevizlibağ overpass in a ... -
Landslide risk report of Istanbul
(Tomorrow's Cities project team, 2020-11)Istanbul, landslides are the first largest disaster in terms of the number of incidents and the second-largest natural disaster after earthquakes in terms of affected houses. There were 1,153 landslides reported in Istanbul, ... -
Rebuilding the neighbourhood history methodology
(Tomorrow's Cities project team, 2022-02)The history of the neighbourhood is a methodology for promoting self-reflection about how humans modified the environment and at the same time bringing back memories of risk for discussing its role in people's everyday ... -
Mapping DRR institutions and actors across scales from centre to local: Kathmandu, Nepal
(Tomorrow's Cities, 2020-03)This is the first report coming out of Work Package 1: Theme 2 (Governance and Institutions) for the Tomorrow’s Cities GCRF Hub in Kathmandu city. It constitutes a qualitative institutional mapping of formal and informal ... -
Strengthening community-based disaster management institutions to tackle COVID–19 and local disasters
(Tomorrow's Cities, 2020-05)The effects of the Coronavirus or COVID-19 have been very apparent as people, politics, and economics of the world have been brought down to a grinding halt. Almost all of the governments around the globe are grappling ... -
Community Engagement on Disaster Risk Reduction 2020
(Tomorrow's Cities, 2020-11)The Nairobi Urban Risk Hub hosted the first community dialogues on the 10th of November, 2020. The first in a 4-part series of dialogues. The dialogues are intended to bring together Community Based Organizations (CBO) ... -
Community engagement on disaster risk reduction - second dialogue
(Tomorrow's Cities, 2022-02)The second community dialogue on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) was hosted by The Nairobi Risk Hub on the 26th of November, 2020. The dialogue brought together CBO leaders from Mukuru, Korogocho, and Mathare Valley, as well ... -
Community engagement on disaster risk reduction - third dialogue
(Tomorrow's Cities, 2021-02)The third DRR and gender mainstreaming dialogue with community leaders was hosted by the Nairobi Risk Hub on Wednesday the 3rd of February, 2021 on zoom platform. The community leaders were drawn from community-based ...
