The book “Road to Resilience” is a guide to increasing the resiience of the world's cities. The book is aimed at urban policy makers and planners and provides bottom-up resilience building options for augmenting urban services through conservation of local resources and waste recycling options. It provides solutions based on principles of conjunctive management of resources, demand focused end-use as well as subsidiary to increase autonomy at local scales. On the supply side, it offers solutions to increase the resource base through managing, conserving and recycling local resources, and on the demand side options for reducing usage of water and energy. Managing natural resources at local scales builds autonomy as well as resilience of the households and clusters. It was porduced by TARU Leading Edge, under the initiative of Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN).