Urban Resilience Lab
45 Processing tools for city-scale resilience screening: earthquake debris, heat, pluvial and coastal flooding, social vulnerability, emergency access, evacuation and a printable atlas.
Urban Resilience Lab helps a planning team see where a city is exposed, who is vulnerable there, how quickly help can reach them and which interventions to fund first. It provides 45 Processing tools and a docked panel with colour-coded groups and an icon for every tool.
HAZARD AND EXPOSURE SCREENING: Urban heat comfort risk, pluvial flood susceptibility, coastal sea-level-rise exposure with hydrologically connected flood-fill (only cells that water can actually reach are flooded), drought and green infrastructure stress, wildfire exposure at the wildland-urban interface, air quality exposure, critical infrastructure exposure, population-weighted exposure and multi-period hazard frequency aggregation.
EARTHQUAKE: Post-earthquake collapse, debris and evacuation network analysis as a Monte Carlo simulation, and a seismic cascade that follows debris into network degradation.
EMERGENCY ACCESS AND EVACUATION: Emergency accessibility and shelter coverage by straight line or along the street network, evacuation time simulation with an optional time-step queue, shelter arrival summaries, optimal shelter siting by greedy maximal coverage, and network criticality from edge betweenness.
VULNERABILITY AND EQUITY: A social vulnerability index, a recovery capacity index, an interpolated vulnerability surface and equity-adjusted adaptation priorities, so the same hazard counts for more where people have less capacity to recover.
SYNTHESIS AND PRIORITIES: A multi-hazard composite index, a climate adaptation priority synthesis, climate projection overlays, a risk-recovery priority matrix, scenario sensitivity analysis, cost-benefit analysis for planning prioritisation, a 25-year lifecycle cost (NPV) calculator and a Pareto-optimal intervention selector.
SPATIAL STATISTICS: Getis-Ord Gi* hot spots, LISA clusters and outliers, risk-trend hot spots that combine Gi* with the change in score, a multi-hazard correlation matrix, and a tool that joins hazard scores to planning units.
SCENARIOS AND MONITORING: Scenario planning templates, scenario comparison and delta maps, and a time-series tracker for following a city's resilience score over the years.
REPORTING AND SYMBOLOGY: One-click resilience symbology, bivariate risk-by-vulnerability choropleths, an HTML resilience score report, recommended-action and studio-brief reports in Markdown, a PDF atlas with map-book presets, and a 3D risk volume export for 3D City Studio.
A synthetic demo city is included, so every workflow can be taught and checked before real data is used. All tools are screening instruments for planning; they do not replace engineering studies.
Manual: https://geophilo.com/planx_urban_resilience/manual.html