Building Resilient Regions
Building Resilient Regions (BRR) is a three-year research project funded by the MacArthur Foundation. The project follows up an 18-month planning phase in which an interdisciplinary team of scholars and practitioners developed concepts, established methodologies, and generated preliminary data and writings as a foundation for further work.
BRR uses the lens of economic and demographic regional challenges to investigate why regions matter now, what constitutes resilience in the face of these challenges, and what factors (including regional asset bases, governance modes, actor choices and civic practices) help to build and sustain regional resilience. The project interweaves quantitative data analysis, qualitative case studies, and other targeted methods, including GIS mapping, organizational surveys, and content analysis. CCI will be focusing on the challenge of the suburbanization of poverty.
