ABSTRACT
Building resilience research typically focuses on critical, high-value assets, but socio-ecological resilience is fundamentally about people, not only property, so mitigation and adaptation efforts must address populations living in the existing fabric of repetitive, residential buildings. Increasing urban resilience demands a shift from performing highly specific, detailed analysis of an exceptional high-value building for an expert audience, to identifying a broadly applicable set of generic probabilistic trends based on sampling, modeling, and communicating findings to the widest possible audience. This chapter explores the challenges to climate adaptation planning on the existing residential fabric of a sample of cities; explains how decision-making tools for homeowners and tenants could improve the resilience of their communities; and explains the methodology and preliminary findings of a new tool, the Resilient Homes Online Design Aide (RHOnDA).
