GCRI · Cities and Built Environment
Mandate and publisher
Cities and Built Environment is a specialist platform of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), the lead institution and Secretariat of the Nexus Consortium. GCRI Canada is the lead contracting organisation. This page sets out the platform’s mandate, who answers for it, the limits of its role and its current state. See the Cities and Built Environment home page.
- STEM methods
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- Canonical methods this field applies
- Topics
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- Subject pages in the field
- Counterparts
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- Platforms in shared fields across the network
- Report series
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- Reports series it contributes to
Mandate and publisher in four parts.
Research on how cities are built and how they fail.
The platform covers urban development, buildings, mobility, infrastructure, housing and human-scale resilience. It brings planning, design, engineering and social research together around a single question: how the built environment shapes exposure, vulnerability and recovery.
Scope
Cities and built environment, with links to critical infrastructure and to society and human development.
Who takes part
Urban researchers, city staff, planners, architects and housing specialists.
What it publishes
Urban resilience profiles, built-environment briefs and city research case studies.
A distinct professional community.
The urban-planning community is distinct from the engineering operators of specific lifelines. Planners, architects and housing specialists work on land, form, tenure and design across a whole city, while lifeline engineers work on the performance of particular networks. GCRI therefore keeps lifeline engineering on Critical Infrastructure and the urban whole here, with explicit links between them.
GCRI publishes the platform and answers for its content and corrections. Editorial coverage of each topic requires named subject review, references and relevant independent specialist voices.
What the platform does not do.
- It does not regulate, certify, license or approve any building, plan, product or institution.
- It does not issue planning advice for individual sites or replace a qualified engineer’s assessment.
- Taking part gives no authority, appointment or influence over findings, and sponsorship confers no editorial control.
- Planning, building control and investment decisions remain with competent authorities and owners under their own rules; see trust, rights and status.
Open for information and enquiries.
Cities and Built Environment is an established platform. Its pages set out its scope and how it works, and its activities, records and services are published here as each one opens. Information and enquiries are open today. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; programmes, working groups and data releases open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.
Related pages: field overview, research and evidence and GCRI platforms.
Questions and answers.
Is Cities and Built Environment a separate organisation?
Who can I contact?
When will programmes open?
Bring a method, a dataset or a question.
Information and enquiries are open today. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.
Legal documents.
Maps, data and figures on this site are shown for context and general information. They are not advice, forecasts or warnings; the limits of the information are set out in the Disclaimers and Data Notices.