Please join us for a conversation regarding what regional resilience can mean in the Columbus and Central Ohio Region. ULI Columbus member Michael Bongiorno will host a conversation with leaders from the AECOM’s Urbanism + Planning practice to discuss the history of the urban resilience movement, how it has manifested in the built and social environment across the country, and how the core principles of resiliency can translate to the greater Columbus region.

Cities and their metropolitan regions are inherently a complex network of inter-related markets and systems – education, energy, transportation, healthcare, economic and financial systems, and housing and real estate markets. These various systems do not end at geographical boundaries and are intrinsically linked together, thus requiring regional cooperation to solve increasingly difficult issues such as affordable housing, infrastructure funding, water quality, and equitable economic development.

Resilient communities are more readily able to absorb and adapt to shocks and stresses to their systems. Incorporating a resilience perspective into a region’s integrated systems and ensuring that design and policy strategies translate at different scales, from neighborhoods to central business districts to new suburbs, is critical in solving complex issues. Success here not only empowers residents to emerge in a stronger position after tough times but enables a higher quality of living for all citizens during their daily lives. 

Through lessons learned from major resilience efforts in recent years, the presentation will explore both design, policy, and implementation strategies at different scales to provide insight into how a community can best advance a sustainability, resilience, and equity agenda. A key point to be discussed, which often goes unmentioned, is how these high-level strategies and polices can positively impact the physical character of a community and have dramatic impacts to a person’s experience of place. The discussion will feature case studies that promote leadership at the grass roots level, address growing social and regional thinking, and understand the role that the design of city and regional systems has in both causing and solving these issues.

*Please note after registration at uli.org a Zoom link will be sent to you via email, please complete this link to confirm your registration.