GCRI · Villes et environnement bâti
Mandat et éditeur
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 Villes et environnement bâti home page.
- Méthodes STIM
- 9
- Méthodes canoniques appliquées par ce domaine
- Sujets
- 8
- Pages thématiques sur le terrain
- Homologues
- 5
- Plateformes dans des domaines partagés à travers le réseau
- Séries de rapports
- 2
- Séries de Reports auxquelles il contribue
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.
Périmètre
Cities and built environment, with links to infrastructures critiques and to society and human development.
Qui participe
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 Infrastructures critiques 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.
Ce que la plateforme ne fait pas.
- 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.
Ouvert pour information et demandes.
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 et réponses.
Is Cities and Built Environment a separate organisation?
Qui puis-je contacter ?
When will programmes open?
Apportez une méthode, un jeu de données ou une question.
L'information et les demandes sont ouvertes dès aujourd'hui. Une demande reçoit une référence et indique l'étape suivante ; candidatures, paiements, allocations de calcul et inscriptions n'ouvrent que lorsque l'équipe, les conditions et la capacité d'examen existent.
Documents juridiques.
Les cartes, données et chiffres de ce site sont présentés à titre de contexte et d'information générale. Ils ne constituent ni des conseils, ni des prévisions, ni des alertes ; les limites de l'information sont exposées dans les Avertissements et les Notices sur les données.