PITTSBURGH
NEW YORK — Thirty-five cities from Accra, Ghana, to Wellington, New Zealand — including Pittsburgh — are being recognized by the New York-based Rockefeller Foundation for their ideas on physical, social and economic resilience.
The foundation announced the latest winners of its 100 Resilient Cities contest in conjunction with a summit today in Singapore. The foundation has committed $100 million to the effort, with the idea that the 100 eventual winners will become models for other cities.
Chosen from nearly 350 applications spanning over 90 countries, this year’s winners are as far north as Montreal and as far south as Sydney. The United States is most represented, with six cities in the continental U.S. and one in Puerto Rico, but there also are multiple selections in China and India.