🏘️ Integrated Neighborhood Resilience Programs

• In Rotterdam, long-term investment in Bospolder–Tussendijken (BoTu) shows how neighbourhood resilience can be built through coordinated action across housing, public space, social services, community safety, economic opportunity and climate adaptation. The programme brings city departments, local partners and residents together around shared goals and links physical improvements with social and economic initiatives that support wellbeing.

This approach demonstrates how place-based programmes can address local challenges such as heat vulnerability, economic exclusion, social cohesion and deteriorating infrastructure while recognising that these challenges are interconnected and systemic.

Neighbourhoods experience climate and social pressures in concentrated ways, yet the drivers span multiple systems. Integrated programmes allow cities to coordinate across agencies, build trust with residents and sequence interventions so they reinforce one another. This helps create stronger, healthier and more equitable communities and lays the groundwork for long-term resilience.