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1. Building the Resilient City
Jeb Brugmann
ICLEI-Local Governments
for Sustainability

2. The modern city
does not internalize
natural risk

3. RISK PERFORMANCE
RESILIENCE
Resilience is the ability of an urban area or system to
provide predictable, targeted benefits to residents and
users, and predictable returns to investors, under a
wide range of often unpredictable circumstances.

4. Vancouver: „green‟ performance

5. Vancouver: city of risks

6. Retention pond Emergency
Emergency egress
HVAC upgrading power supply
Grade/street redesign
New
residential tower
Roof maintenance Improved
Storm water storage solid waste
tank management
New
Rescue
office/hotel/
vehicles Emergency
residential tower Water line
upgrading shelter
Permeable surfacing
Park
redevelopment
Retention wall
Retention pond
New light rail Storm drain
transit line maintenance

7. 3 INVERSIONS
Bottom-Up Investment Customized Finance
Procurement
Local Re-development
Capacity “Resilience Upgrading”
Planning & Design
Reform
“Mainstreaming”

8. Emergency egress Emergency
HVAC upgrading Grade/street redesign power supply
New
residential tower
Roof maintenance
Storm water storage
tank
New
Rescue
office/hotel/
National/Subnational
vehicles
Protect catastrophe bond
Emergency
residential tower
shelter
Value
Value capture financing of storm water storage
& emergency power Capture Value
Conventional loans & equity finance; development bonusing;
Create Value
special bonds; revolving loan pools for egress upgrade
Establishment of district re-development Local Re-Development
Local Re-Development
corporation or other SPV Capacity
Capacity
Establishment of special redevelopment district Bottom-Up Planning & Design
in municipal DRM plan

9. Required Innovation Financing Instruments Project Deliverables
in Professional Grants · Technical/Planning Assistance
Performance Catastrophe & Social · Training
Impact Bonds · Other Institutional Support
in Risk Reduction Insurance/Re-insurance · Risk Reduction
Measures Securitization/Structured · Emergency
Performance Finance Management Measures
Value Capture Specific Asset or
(From Increased Property Values)
System Performance
Performance Contracts Enhancements
in Area or System (Asset/System Cost
Performance Reductions)
Custom Debt Instruments Place-specific Assets
(Project-specific Municipal, (real estate, infrastructure,
Community, Utility Bonds) utilities, amenities)
Equity Institutional
in Institutional Guarantees Operations Capacity
Performance
Loans (utilities or special
(Banks, Revolving Funds) development corporations)

10. ICLEI +
Brugmann +
financing the
resilient city