People who live in the St James Town apartment towers in Toronto’s inner city don’t have air conditioning. But if the power goes out, they’ll suffer more than most.
Planning for emergencies in West Bend
Emergency preparedness and flooding in West Bend.
York University Design Challenge
In January 2017, Professor Elizabeth Hobart (Zab) challenged her York University students to design campaign visuals for Community Resilience to Extreme Weather (CREW).
Making it rain in Toronto
A group gathered to demonstrate through role playing the importance of neighbourhood level response to natural disasters.
Building Resilient Communities in Hamilton
While Toronto battled extreme weather warnings and freezing rain, participants gathered on an unusually mild morning in Hamilton for a Resilient Hamilton workshop.
Telling a neighbourhood resiliency story by reading the data
Resiliency is the ability of a community to cope with extreme stressors, make the very best of them, and bounce back afterwards. It sounds straightforward but measuring it is not so simple.