# The Living City (slides; Mike Bennett & Vinay Gupta, Buttered Side Down) > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [847]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: document (PDF), 2009-11 (from the career record), https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Living_City__Arup__Nov2009__Cold_Katrina.pdf. Text: document text - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009), before the ledgers step (Ethereum launch, 2015). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): SCIM at town scale, the layer a camp-city grows into. - Career works it belongs to: - Buttered Side Down (2009): A historic risk management consultancy set up with Mike Bennett in 2009, behind the OODA 2x2 model and the... - The Living City (2009): A Buttered Side Down talk to the engineering firm Arup, with Mike Bennett: how cities learned to beat... - Six ways people die (2008): Framework: people die of heat, cold, hunger, thirst, illness or injury, so infrastructure has to answer... (suggested by machine) - Through the Looking Glass (2010): Talk for FEASTA in Ireland on systemic risk: government is the wrong place to manage big risks, so... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum. - nuclear / panflu: Pandemic, evacuation and rehousing plans. - STAR-TIDES: The National Defense University project and the papers around it. (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: The Living City — cascading urban failures and resilience (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Buttered Side Down (2 here; 7 sources in all, earliest dated 2009); Cold Katrina (1 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2009); Visionary Adaptation (1 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2009); The Living City (1 here; 6 sources in all, earliest dated 2009); Six Ways To Die (2 here; 24 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 3 undated); Six ways (2 here; 30 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 5 undated); Arup (1 here; 9 sources in all, earliest dated 2009); FEMA (1 here; 11 sources in all, earliest dated 2002); interdependencies (1 here; 12 sources in all, earliest dated 2009, 3 undated); supply chains (2 here; 59 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 2 undated) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): interdependencies; Arup; Buttered Side Down; The Living City; Cold Katrina; Visionary Adaptation - Importance: core-text score 0.31 (1.00 is the top), number 236 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [320] [The Living City - Buttered Side Down presentation to... (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/320.md): same career work: The Living City - [8] [Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis (2013)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md): career thread: Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis (lessons for city governments, four years on) - On the same works, just before: [54] [Framing The Collapsonomics Practice | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/54.md); [60] [Dealing in Security – Simple Critical Infrastructure... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/60.md); [84] [Six Ways to Die Workshop introductory lecture at Formens... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/84.md) - On the same works, just after: [710] [TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md); [366] ["Through the Looking Glass" - Vinay Gupta - Ireland... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/366.md); [849] Through the Looking Glass (slides) (2010) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: The Living City (slides; Mike Bennett & Vinay Gupta, Buttered Side Down), document, 2009-11, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Living_City__Arup__Nov2009__Cold_Katrina.pdf; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [847], https://guptaoption.com/texts/847.md. ## Passages [p. 1 to 3](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Living_City__Arup__Nov2009__Cold_Katrina.pdf#page=1) The Living City Mike Bennett & Vinay Gupta Buttered Side Down.co.uk we solve your real problem city as rain forest •biodiversity •complexity •synergy the great fires •Chicago •London •Edo / Tokyo [p. 4 to 6](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Living_City__Arup__Nov2009__Cold_Katrina.pdf#page=4) how we beat fire •changed behavior •building better •public fire brigades •building codes fire took systems level changes • individual, group, organization, state • all buildings / code • brigades / business risks: new, point and systemic • climate: new and systemic • earthquakes: point • pandemic: systemic [p. 7](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Living_City__Arup__Nov2009__Cold_Katrina.pdf#page=7) defining risks •six ways to die • hot, cold, hunger, thirst, illness, injury •economic risk •population leaves [p. 8](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Living_City__Arup__Nov2009__Cold_Katrina.pdf#page=8) injury world country military region town police too ess hospital village illn ho home t person cooling sewage toilet plant the home water tap individual plant water heating power station kitchen cooking stores energy d mkts col thi food rst too shops fuel food mkts mkts hunger [p. 9 to 11](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Living_City__Arup__Nov2009__Cold_Katrina.pdf#page=9) scenario one pandemic • H1N1 2009 / 1918 • not if but when • quarantine / supply chains the unexpected • how do you move supplies? • what about food? • what about insulin? http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/America/pdf/chapter3.pdf six ways to die revisited • flu hits people and supply chains • interdependencies are the hardest part [p. 12 to 14](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Living_City__Arup__Nov2009__Cold_Katrina.pdf#page=12) mitigating risks •stockpile / backup •plan to do without •training •change systems who handles risks? •FEMA, CDC, FDA, EPA do their risks •local responders •including citizens! rational response is cross-level •individual, group, organization, state •good individual choices help a lot [p. 15 to 17](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Living_City__Arup__Nov2009__Cold_Katrina.pdf#page=15) scenario two cold katrina • fragile grid “brittle power” http://www.natcapsolutions.org/publications_files/brittlepower.htm • terrorist engineers http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/gambetta/Engineers%20of%20Jihad.pdf • prolonged winter grid failure beyond resilience •CK requires change •change our models •unmake the risk •not just hardening visionary adaptation unthinkable adaptation improved transformation normal resilience system shock crisis failure to adapt [p. 18 to 20](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Living_City__Arup__Nov2009__Cold_Katrina.pdf#page=18) how the mind understands risk •probability/impact •risk estimation •complex scenarios •UNDER REACTION change the system one brick at a time •everything changes •like beating fire •buildings and cars •we make, they buy imagine if we had not fixed fire • 6.5 bn, half urban • the environment is like fire once was • policy backs tech [p. 21 to 23](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Living_City__Arup__Nov2009__Cold_Katrina.pdf#page=21) it is an engineer’s future •we made this mess •buildings and cars •and now we fix it recommendations • investigate systems transformation • resilience now! plans • pilot project: Arup? Buttered Side Down.co.uk we solve your real problem --- End of [847] The Living City (slides; Mike Bennett & Vinay Gupta, Buttered Side Down). Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md) TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010); the most closely related, [320](https://guptaoption.com/texts/320.md) The Living City - Buttered Side Down presentation to... (2012); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.