Table 7 Prioritized urban resilience strategies

Strategic objectives

 GI.1

Reviewing flood hazard maps according to morphometric/topography analysis

Flood risk-informed decision making

 GI.3

Increasing critical services accessibility throughout elevated roads

Modifying flood-resilience building and design codes

 GI.4

Determining basements occupancy or clearance alternatives according to area risk level

 GI.5

Designing elevated parking lots in exposed areas

 GI.12

Spreading green street/parking networks design (permeable paving, urban canopies, bio-swales, planter box landscapes, rain gardens)

Including nature-based solutions within flood resilience planning

 GI.13

Accommodating concrete inflow structures near GI with necessary slopes to direct stormwater to GI

 GI.15

Integrating CCA and DRR and sustainable urban water management solutions within city planning via medium-term development plans

Promoting comprehensive and integrated planning

 GI.16

Considering local and national development plans in alignment with SDGs and Sendai frameworks

 GI.17

Preparing city green growth plan and launching green public procurement policy

 GI.18

Expanding slums re-planning projects scope and controlling urban sprawl directions via mandatory site selection and monitoring determinants

 GI.19

Encouraging diversified land-use patterns with avoiding compact/dense urban form developments

Strategic objectives

 PE.4

Expand and maintain waste disposal network and landfills to avoid pipes blockages that limit flood drainage

Enhancing waste management performance

 PE.5

Retrofitting vulnerable urban structures and founding regular urban structures monitoring techniques (e.g., on-site surveys)

Increasing structural mitigation

 PE.6

Using temporary flood protection measures of buildings in exposed built areas (impervious materials, impact-resistant windows, and waterproof door frames) remotely installed through owners” mobiles applications

 PE.8

Increasing existing drainage pipes capacity and installing dry weather flow diversions in built-up areas with combined sewer

 PE.11

Preparing the infrastructure for transportation soft modes (cycling, pedestrians’ paths, roller-skating, walking maps) along with an urban multi-modal mobility plan

Enhancing accessibility and mobility

Strategic objectives

 SE.4

Enhancing information and practices sharing with the public pre and during floods (via published bulletins/public consultations/user-friendly mobile applications/media campaigns/workshops)

Enhancing social and stakeholders’ participation and awareness

 SE.6

Enabling public monitoring of institutional performance via monitoring and feedback program

Empowering civic capacity

Strategic objectives

 E.3

Enacting renewable energy law (allowing residents to set up solar PV rooftops and sell excess output back to the local grid

Improving redundancy characteristics