City Planning Analogy

The speed and completeness of a city's recovery from a natural disaster is used as an analogy for how enterprise resilience reveals structural strengths and weaknesses. The need for enterprise system integration parallels a city where transportation, water, power, and emergency services must function as a unified environment rather than independent silos. The article uses urban city planning as a structural analogy for explaining Enterprise Architecture, comparing the EA blueprint to a city blueprint that accounts for transportation, utilities, housing, and emergency services.