RESILIENT AND
INCLUSIVE CITIES LAB
Tools for Urban Resilience
Project 1: Resilience Indices and Rankings
Summary:
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Resilience indices and rankings showcase how cities perform and compare based on indicators like liveability and quality of life.
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This project intends to explore the usefulness and challenges of these rankings and how they may be improved.
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City rankings are useful for a fair number of reasons including stimulating public interest for the city residents.
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However, they are still limited in areas such as quality data.
Project leads: Devansh Jain, Perrine Hamel
Publications: Better Rankings for Better Cities: The Limitations and Prospects of City Rankings The Nature of Cities (2022)
Project 2: Serious games for nature-based solutions
Summary:
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Serious Games address ‘wicked questions’ that are not easily solved but might have important consequences.
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This project assessed how serious games could inform the implementation of nature-based solutions in cities.
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Of the compiled list of 62 games, 19 are highly relevant to nature-based solutions in urban planning.
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Results suggest that most games were developed for educational purposes, and they conveyed utilitarian values of nature (i.e., highlighting the benefits of urban nature for people).
Project lead: Aura Istrate
Publication: Istrate & Hamel (in review) Serious Games to Integrate Nature-based Solutions in Urban Planning: a review
Database of serious games: Nov2021_Database 62 games_Supplemental Material - Copy for website.xlsx
