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Feeding the Land: What We Eat Built the World We Inhabit

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:30:00 +0000

There is a standard way of telling the history of architecture and food. It begins with the human decision to cultivate, to store, to distribute, to consume, and ends with the building that decision produced. In this version of events, food is the occasion and architecture is the response.

Rockefeller Foundation Announces the Next 35 Cities to Join Its 100 Resilient Cities Challenge

Katie Watkins — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The Rockefeller Foundation has announced the next group of cities that will be part of the 100 Resilient Cities Challenge, which aims to help prepare cities from around the world for the social, economic and physical challenges of the 21^st century. After reviewing close to 350 applications from 90 countries across six continents, the Rockefeller Foundation selected 35 cities to join the 32 cities that were announced last year. The cities selected are addressing numerous challenges, ranging from flooding and extreme weather events to economic stress and strains on infrastructure and health systems, according to a press release.

100 Resilient Cities: How the Rockefeller Foundation is Addressing Resiliency on a Global Scale

Katie Watkins — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Resiliency has become a keyword when it comes to city planning and development, so much so that former AIA president, Clark Manus, declared last year that “resilience is the new Green.” To address resiliency on a global level and help cities around the world become more resilient to social, economic and physical challenges, The Rockefeller Foundation kicked off its 100 Resilient Cities Challenge in 2013. Under the initiative,100 cities will be selected to be part of the challenge, where they will receive help and funding to hire a Chief Resilience Officer and assistance in developing and implementing a resilience strategy.

The Rockefeller Foundation Kicks Off its 100 Resilient Cities Challenge

Katie Watkins — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The Rockefeller Foundation has kicked off its 2014 100 Resilient Cities Challenge, which aims to help “build resilience to the social, economic, and physical challenges that cities face in an increasingly urbanized world.” Each of the 100 cities selected will receive funding to hire a Chief Resilience Officer and assistance in developing and implementing a resilience strategy.

The Guardian Launches Guardian Cities

Rory Stott — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Earlier this week, the Guardian launched its new Cities website, which - as discussed by Oliver Wainwright in his opening article will be "an open platform for critical discussion and debate about the issues facing the world's metropolitan centres". In this introduction, Wainwright offers a fast-paced rundown of some of the major challenges facing cities, from technology to transport, housing to high streets, and economic to environmental disasters. You can read his full article here.

Rockefeller Foundation Selects 33 Cities for Resiliency Challenge

Karissa Rosenfield — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Rockefeller Foundation has named the first group of cities selected in the “100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge.” Each city has been chosen for demonstrating “a commitment to building their own capacities to prepare for, withstand, and bounce back rapidly from shocks and stresses.” More than 1,000 registrations and nearly 400 formal applications from cities around the world were submitted. After careful review of each city's challenges, these 33 where chosen: