What is Community Mapping? Community mapping projects engage a wide range of community members in the process of understanding disaster risk and have proven to be successful at creating accurate and timely data about the built environment and its vulnerability to disasters.

Open Cities Process Diagram Designing and executing Open Cities projects is a complex task that involves a great deal of coordination with partners, technical and scientific work, team and volunteer coordination and management, and logistical work. While the format of this book necessarily presents these steps as linear, in practice these tasks are ongoing, iterative, and happening in parallel.