Infrastructure, Energy and Industry
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Illustrative: a transmission grid, its load flows and a cascading outage
Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Infrastructure, Energy and Industry
The discipline covers how urban form, buildings, housing, mobility and services concentrate exposure, and how planning, design and municipal governance reduce it.
Map cities, housing and the built environment on a real place
The model
From ground shaking to a retrofit decision: fragility curves and the benefit-cost ratio
DataModelGateDecisionStandard it teachesStandard it relies onNeighbouring discipline
The model From ground shaking to a retrofit decision: fragility curves and the benefit-cost ratio
The subtopics its courses and labs teach.
For planners, municipal engineers, housing officers, insurers and developers who need to measure how urban form and building stock concentrate exposure and to weigh codes, retrofit and land-use choices against each other.
Each method is listed with what it assumes and where it fails.
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Cities, housing and the built environment's own model, as a live chart: move each parameter and read how the outputs respond.
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Context
Infrastructure and its partners
Infrastructure gives pipes, dams and treatment works to water (0.6), transmission and fuel logistics to energy (0.6) and access to care to health (0.5).
W · E · I · F · H · B
The Nexus Standards the discipline teaches toward, grouped by master standard, with the disciplines that teach each.
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Open scholarly sources searched with the subject terms of Cities, housing and the built environment.
Search termsCities, housing and the built environment; Urban growth and land use; Informal settlements; Buildings, codes and heat; Housing and affordability; Urban drainage and green-blue infrastructureDerived from the Risk Academy page on Cities, housing and the built environment.
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Research and preprints as they are published, by discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
The hub lists the newest research and preprints for Cities, housing and the built environment, each with its source and date. Open the research hub
From the Academy's risk taxonomy: the discipline's own entries and those of its primary courses, with how many courses teach each.
Recent developments in cities, housing and the built environment, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026.
Courses with this as their primary discipline.
Each course has its primary discipline elsewhere and teaches this field as part of its scope.
From connected disciplinesIn development
| Aspect | In this area |
|---|---|
| Technology that helps | Digital twins, sensors and robotics for inspection. |
| Risk technology creates | Cascading cyber-physical failure and vendor lock-in. |
Field platforms of the ecosystem where the subject is studied and applied.
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