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Cities and built environment · Critical infrastructure · Society and human development
Urban development, buildings, mobility, infrastructure, housing and human-scale resilience. This page shows the series it feeds, the evidence behind it and how to contribute.
Urban development, buildings, mobility, infrastructure, housing and human-scale resilience.
Drawn from the Baseline Edition 2026 drafts through the systems this area reads. Each opens at its anchor in its edition, with its numbered sources.
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How Cities and Built Environment reaches Nexus Reports: what it reads, how it reads it, the sealed cut and the series it feeds.
Cities and Built Environment reads EOP and NorthStar: governed sources with their releases, never a value without its source.
The evidence path of Cities and Built Environment in the pillar lanes, from the Foundry systems it reads to the Reports series it feeds and the authorities that decide.
A teaching model of the evidence path, not a forecast and not a record of any run; the systems, methods and series named come from the registries.
Sources: Cities and Built Environment in Nexus Reports (2026); Cities and Built Environment home (2026).
| Series | Foundry systems it draws on | Academy disciplines | Series home |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Sector Risk and Resilience | GRIx one sector's structure, dependencies and concentration measures EOP observed change in the sector's assets and their surroundings | Trade, supply chains and geoeconomics Critical infrastructure and lifelines | Open |
| Evidence Brief | GRIx the evidence behind one question, with its strength and gaps Portals the public-safe release of a brief and its corrections DSS what the evidence settles for the decision in hand | Research, evidence and the science-policy interface Risk communication and risk literacy Uncertainty and decision making | Open |
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