The cities and built environment section of the Cities and the Built Environment subsite serves municipalities, planners, host cities and urban resilience programmes: how building, exposure, service and local risk-strategy records are identified and verified, and how they crosswalk to the Sendai local targets, the resilience scorecard and the open city-model standards. Every artifact of the area carries a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier), which identifies and never certifies.
Context entry PROPOSED for the Nexus Standards registry.
NXS-STD-DC-000003Nexus Standards (2026). Cities and the built environment: area brief, Cities and the Built Environment (PROPOSED). https://nexustandards.com/cities/cities-and-built-environment-standards/ · UNI NXS-STD-DC-000003. Last reviewed 2026-10-17.
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The sectors and industries section of Cities and the Built Environment. Scope as the area context entry states it (PROPOSED).
In scope 5
Out of scope 3
Jurisdictions No jurisdiction note is recorded for this area yet; jurisdiction narrows what applies and never implies that a Nexus profile satisfies a law.
The Nexus Standards the area context entry lists; the registry row lists NS-0, NS-3, NS-5, NS-9, NS-10, NS-11. Every one is proposed or specified; none is adopted by an authority.
Status proposed · 12 rules stated. Read NS-0 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 0 rules stated. Read NS-3 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 5 rules stated. Read NS-5 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 5 rules stated. Read NS-9 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 7 rules stated. Read NS-10 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 6 rules stated. Read NS-11 · The rules for this area
Relations are register entries (NS-14), never conformance or equivalence statements; hover or focus a relation for its meaning. Names of standards bodies and their standards belong to their stewards and are used only to identify the documents; no text of an external standard is reproduced here.
Closed or paywalled standards appear by name and link only; any compatibility profile of one is built on simulated data and kept on protected pages until an institutional arrangement with the issuing body is recorded. Nexus Standards is not affiliated with, endorsed by or certified by any standards body named here.
Each coupling names the mechanism that links this area to another; select a card on the canvas to trace it. Mechanisms are stated in the context bank (PROPOSED).
Fig.RUNNING marks the area you are reading; DONE an area in the same subsite, QUEUED an area elsewhere and GATE a subsite reached. Tags give reading order only, never a status. Design, not a record.
Hazards and threats 5
Sectors 1
Sources the area reads or proposes. Delivery follows GRIx first; a source is shown live only after an owner decision admits it for public pages.
No legal register row admits any of these sources for live display on public pages yet, so nothing is read from them here. A register row that exists records the source for the governed GRIx path; admission for public pages is a separate owner decision.
Global Human Settlement Layerpending admission
European Commission JRC · versioned epochs
CC BY 4.0 (European Commission reuse policy)
GRIx governed readregister row exists
OpenStreetMappending admission
OpenStreetMap Foundation and contributors · continuous
ODbL 1.0
GRIx governed readregister row exists
Overture Maps buildings themepending admission
Overture Maps Foundation · monthly
ODbL 1.0 (buildings theme)
GRIx governed readregister row exists
World Development Indicatorspending admission
World Bank · annual with quarterly updates
CC BY 4.0
GRIx governed readregister row exists
WorldPop gridded populationpending admission
WorldPop, University of Southampton · annual
CC BY 4.0
GRIx governed readregister row exists
Exposure and loss records with boundary versions and licences become readable as evidence for GCRI Canada urban risk research, which applies its own rules.
A city that publishes its local strategy clauses and scorecard attestations gives GRF a record trail to consider; no recognition is implied.
Urban resilience projects can present verified exposure and service-continuity baselines to GRA for capital-readiness assessment under its own rules.
Each institution decides under its own rules what it reads as evidence; no pathway is an approval, a readiness statement or investment advice.
Pick a sector, hazard family, capability and artifact type; the registry routes the standards and says why.
Pending admissionVersion and feed state per standard; every row reads source feed pending admission until a register row admits a feed.
Today · from the registryTest suites, conformance statements and attestations per standard; no attestation is recorded yet, and none would certify.
A console computes from the registry and shows its reasons; it never decides, approves or certifies.
Indicator names and codes as their stewards publish them; values appear only from a governed GRIx source, never typed into a page.
Profile urban exposure, service and local strategy records and crosswalk them to Sendai local targets, MCR2030 and open city-model standards.
No working group is chartered yet; a community may charter this one under NS-13 through a docket.
This area has a row in registry/subsites.yaml (status planned), so it carries five depth pages and the register crosswalk of its domains.
The rules of each listed standard, read through the specification reader.
Depth · CrosswalkEvery register entry in the area's domains, by relation, with the crosswalk graph.
Depth · Records and schemasScope, record, schema explorer and how a UNI resolves.
Depth · ConformanceClauses, evidence and attestations; no step is a certification.
Depth · ReadinessThe area beside the three pathways, as a matrix.
6 Nexus Standards · 3 domains · 36 external standards · 28 issuing bodies · 1 consumers. Relations are register entries (adopt, profile, crosswalk, cite), never compliance claims; names belong to their stewards.
Crosswalk graph74 nodes and 94 links from registry/external-standards.yaml, registry/subsites.yaml and registry/consumers.yaml. Relations (adopt, profile, crosswalk, cite) are register entries, never compliance claims.
The registry holds no geography for the area itself: areas are not places. The one geography it implies is where the bodies that issue the area's external standards sit.
| Body | Seat | Register entries |
|---|---|---|
| Open Geospatial Consortium | Arlington, Virginia, United States | 4 |
| IEC TC 65 | Geneva, Switzerland | 2 |
| ISO/TC 211 | Geneva, Switzerland | 2 |
| ISO/TC 268 | Geneva, Switzerland | 2 |
| ISO/TC 299 | Geneva, Switzerland | 2 |
| OGC | Arlington, Virginia, United States | 2 |
| European Commission Joint Research Centre with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee | Ispra, Italy | 1 |
| European Parliament and Council | Brussels, Belgium | 1 |
| IEC TC 65 with ISA (ISA/IEC 62443) | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| IEEE | Piscataway, New Jersey, United States | 1 |
| IETF | Wilmington, Delaware, United States | 1 |
| ISO/TC 251 | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| ISO/TC 59/SC 13 | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| ITU-R | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| ITU-T SG15 | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| STAC community; OGC Community Standard 25-004 | Arlington, Virginia, United States | 1 |
| UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management | New York, New York, United States | 1 |
| UN Member States (Third UN World Conference on DRR); UNDRR custodian | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| UNDRR | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| UNDRR and International Science Council | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| UNDRR, UNDP and WMO | New York, New York, United States | 1 |
| WMO (adopted by Congress 2019) | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
1 subsites: no geography in the registry (areas, not places) · 2 consumers: repositories, no geography · 19 Nexus Standards: documents, no geography · 6 issuing bodies without a fixed public seat, listed not drawn: UN Office for Outer Space Affairs; Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems; Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery; International Civil Aviation Organization; International Maritime Organization; Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector · Programme regions of the ecosystem coverage register: named, not drawn (no coordinates in the registry)
Standards globe22 issuing bodies with a public seat, 36 register entries, H3 cells at resolutions 1 to 4. Seats are city coordinates, not registry fields; subsites, consumers and standards have no geography, so none is drawn. Plate carrée still map; globe with script.
| Area on the sites | Artifact kinds | Governing standards | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cities and built environment (GCRI Canada field gateway; GRF and GRA counterparts) | data, dataset, report, map, documentation | NS-1, NS-3, NS-3b, NS-4, NS-5 | therisk.global/fields/cities/ |
From the ecosystem coverage register: what the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) sites publish on this area, as claimed there and not evaluated here.
Peer-reviewed sources and published statistics on the publishers' own domains, as the context entry cites them.
Plain links to the faculty pages of Risk Academy; no course, credential, recognition or endorsement is implied.
Risk Academy disciplines that teach Cities and the built environment, with their courses; the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) subsites that carry those disciplines; and the Nexus Foundry systems the standards name. Mappings are proposed for review (Risk Academy standards map, 2026-10-17); a link says a page on the same subject exists, never an endorsement or a conformance statement; framework names in course titles are named and linked, never reproduced.
Propose a change, join the working group or name a source. Area entries are PROPOSED content for the Nexus Standards registry; a UNI identifies and never certifies, and nothing on this site is a certification, an approval or a readiness statement.
Nexus Standards documents CC BY 4.0 · tooling Apache-2.0 · counsel review pending (DEC-2026-10-16-NEXUS-STANDARDS-OPEN-LICENCE). External standards are named and linked under their own licences; a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier) identifies, it never certifies. · Generated from the Nexus Standards corpus at commit 437ae044c5cb (2026-10-17); proposed and open.