Resilient Cities Network

🌹 As institutions, we often only see the thorns and not the rose.
 
When we only look at neighborhoods through data, policy challenges and risk indicators, it is easy to focus on what is missing.
 
In Bospolder–Tussendijken, Rotterdam, the story begins with what is already there: social networks, shared spaces and informal connection. Everyday acts of care that quietly hold communities together.
 
City of Rotterdam, , BoTu’s residents and partners including the Resilient Cities Network worked together to recognize and strengthen these existing foundations, supported by the UP2030 programme.
 
The result is two new resources that make up a Toolkit for Resilient Neighborhoods:
 
📖 Stories of Neighborhood Resilience from BoTu
Real examples showing how resilience emerges through people, relationships and local action.
 
🧰 Building Blocks for Resilient Neighbourhoods
A practical guide that translates these experiences into principles other communities can adapt to their own context.
 
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These women believed they could make a difference.

Today, they’re doing it.🔥

Across the R-Cities network, many more women are driving change in cities around the world. We share a mission: to help build a world where every girl and woman has the chance to dream, grow, be safe, be healthy and seize opportunity.

Because when women lead, cities become stronger, safer and more resilient.

✊ Empower women and girls to be the changemakers of tomorrow.

🏃‍➡️ Cities can respond to growing heat and flooding risks — but we'll need everyone.

Businesses, neighbors and local organizations can take action to prepare their communities for emergencies, stay protected and recover faster.

Our new publication with Interface Studio, The Guidebook for Community Resilience, outlines steps that anyone can take to build a more resilient future. Together with engaged local governments, we can make resilience a shared mission in every community.