Across Houston’s vast multicultural geography, vulnerable communities disproportionately encounter stressors and unmet needs following natural and man-made disasters.

The Houston Resilience Hub Network Master Plan provides aid to marginalized areas with a series of community-serving facilities that coordinate resources for residents during daily operations, disaster, and recovery periods.

Utilizing a site-inclusive approach in facility network planning central to landscape architecture, the project focuses on providing access to community preparedness training, capacity-building programming and services, and climate-ready buildings and sites. The plan acts as a national model for increasing community resilience in the face of future threats. The resulting Plan features four components of such a network: Spokes, Spots, Super Spots, and Hubs. All play a role during the “steady-state,” “disaster,” and “recovery” period, with greater emphasis on building community cohesion during “steady-state” days for most of the year.