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During the last decade, the concept
urban resilience –the capacity of a city to recover after a shock– is becoming popular. And with reason, as confirmed by the United Nations, which asserts that "Globally, 80 per cent of the largest cities are vulnerable to severe impacts from earthquakes, 60 per cent are at risk from storm surges and tsunamis, and all face new impacts caused by climate change". In this context, the start-up Opticits proposes a web-based tool allowing cities and corporations to anticipate these challenges. That is what Ignasi Fontanals, its co-founder, has told us.
Knowing what’s happening in their cities is one of the main concerns of the city managers. In the past, when cities grew and became more complex and hard to manage, gathering actual informationÂ