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1. SPUR resources on Disaster Planning
   Site of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association.
   20-11-2012 to cities, community, preparedness, resilience, san francisco, urban, us
2. Working to Mitigate Social and Environmental Risks in Rio de Janeiro (InSTEDD iLab Latin America, Sep 2012)
   Article on a 'digital mapping project that allows the youth to create digital maps of their communities and then interact with that map by publicly tagging the issues they see. This cutting-edge mapping platform enables real-time data collection through web and mobile applications.'
   11-10-2012 to apps, brazil, community, mapping, technology, urban
3. Lemonopoly
   A game encoraging awareness and adoption of urban agriculture. Has an interesting team (city) based approach.
   25-09-2012 to agriculture, food security, games, learning, public awareness, urban
4. Urban Humanitarian Response Portal (ALNAP and UN-Habitat)
   Global site to share knowledge on urban humanitarian crises.
   19-09-2012 to alnap, cities, development, emergency response, reconstruction, rehabilitation, un-habitat, urban
5. Nigeria: Aba - Those Illegal Structures Must Come Down (All Africa, Sep 17 2012)
   Artcile suggesting urban renewal in Aba, Nigeria, making part of the case on the protection of roads from flooding.
   18-09-2012 to africa, eminent domain, flooding, redevelopment, renewal, urban
6. Utica United Recovery Plan (Dec 2009)
   Blog essay outlining innovative and visionary community recovery planning in response to the April 20, 2004 tornado in North Utica, Illinois. Includes interesting details about effort to bring together diverse funding sources to support the recovery plan.
   05-06-2012 to collaboration, community, housing, planning, reconstruction, recovery, tornado, urban, us
7. MIT SENSEable City Lab
   Center sutdying the impact of the increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics on the design and operation of cities.
   03-07-2011 to cities, data, planning, technology, urban
8. Disaster Resilience Indicators for Benchmarking Baseline Conditions (Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, 2010)
   'This paper provides a methodology and a set of indicators for measuring baseline characteristics of communities that foster resilience.'
   14-08-2010 to community, economics, impact, indicators, infrastructure, institutional, resilience, rural, social, urban, vulnerability
9. Climate Disaster Resilience: Focus on Coastal Urban Cities in Asia (Kyoto University, 2009)
   An overview of the Climate Disaster Resilience Index which is based on five resilience-based dimensions: natural, physical, social, economic and institutional. The study includes 10 cities throughout Asia: Banda Aceh, Bangkok, Colombo, Danang, Hue, Iloilo, Mumbai, San Fernando, and Yokohama.
   24-05-2010 to asia, cities, climate change, drr, indicators, resilience, urban
10. Density and Disasters: Economics of Urban Hazard Risk (World Bank, 2009)
    Paper examining the interplay between agglomeration and exposure to disaster risk.
    06-05-2010 to cities, density, development, disasters, drr, economics, spatial analysis, urban

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