This new organization wants to help cities create a broader idea of what resilience means

Resilient Cities Catalyst hopes to work with other organizations—whether national or state governments as opposed to city governments, or even business associations and universities—that “may be a more effective entry point for building urban resilience,” Berkowitz says. “I still think the chief resilience officer was an amazing municipal invention over the last six or seven years, and I still think we will still help cities figure out how to implement a chief resilience officer,” he adds. “But in the new organization, it will not be the only way we approach it.”

By Kristin Toussaint