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What is City Resilience?
City Resilience is the capacity of individuals, communities, institutions, businesses, and systems within a city to survive, adapt, and grow no matter what kinds of chronic stresses and acute shocks they experience. Resilience is about making cities better, both in the short & long term, for everyone.
Resilient Chennai
100 Resilient Cities – Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation (100RC) is a network of 100 global cities integrating resilience thinking in their development efforts.
In December 2014, Chennai joined the 100RC initiative. As a member city, Chennai received the financial and logistical support to establish an innovative new position, a Chief Resilience Officer (CRO), to lead the city’s resilience efforts in collaboration with the city government, citizens and various other stakeholder groups.
Resilient Chennai has been granted expert support to establish a robust Resilience Strategy; access to solutions, service providers and partners from across public, private and non-profit sectors; and membership to a global network of member cities to learn from and help each other.
In July 2017, R Krishna Mohan was appointed as Chennai’s Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) and is now leading Chennai in the strategy phase of its resilience journey which involves engaging stakeholders and understanding its resilience related strengths & challenges.
100 Resilient Cities
100 Resilient Cities—Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation (100RC) is dedicated to helping cities around the world become more resilient to the physical, social and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st century.
100RC supports the adoption and incorporation of a view of resilience that includes not just the shocks—earthquakes, fires, floods, etc.—but also the stresses that weaken the fabric of a city on a day to day or cyclical basis.
Examples of these stresses include high unemployment, an overtaxed or inefficient public transportation system, endemic violence, or chronic food and water shortages. By addressing both the shocks and the stresses, a city becomes more able to respond to adverse events, and is overall better able to deliver basic functions in both good times and bad, to all populations.
near north Coromandel coast (just south of a small fishing village called Madraspatam) from Nayak rulers to build a warehouse or factory for trading purposes. In 1640 they built Fort St. George which eventually became the core of the colonial city.
the first municipal corporation in the British Commonwealth outside Britain.
The development in Royapuram opened up settlements in low-lying areas.
in the city which existed till 1953
began when Congress Party was elected in State Government at Madras Presidency in the first Provincial Election held in British India and issued an order in April 1938 making Hindi language teaching compulsory in all the secondary schools of the province.
a temporary solution was designed whereby English was to remain the official language for fifteen years while Hindi would be promoted as national language so English could be phased out.
in Tamil Nadu protesting and finally thwarting the possibility of inclusion of Hindi as the official language of India.
allowed defunct lakes to be filled in to accommodate housing schemes.
from 129 sq. km to cover 176 sq. km
Following the earthquake off the Indonesian coast (9.1 on Richter scale), a massive tsunami struck Chennai and surrounding areas wrecking tremendous havoc to livelihood and infrastructure.
Over the course of the Preliminary Research Assessment (Phase I), the Resilient Chennai team worked to understand the city’s context and identify key resilience challenges. The following broad areas have been identified for inclusion into the final Resilience Strategy for the city.