Understanding Urban Resilience: A Cape Town Perspective

Creating resilience maps is one way of taking stock of where we are at and visualizing how to move forward. But there are different approaches to mapping that draw on different types of data and are used in different ways. This briefing note draws on material from interviews with people working within the City of Cape Town, in NGOs, as independent consultants and as researchers. The briefing note starts by exploring the understanding of the term resilience and what it might mean in Cape Town, before looking at the role of mapping resilience.

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