"The time to prepare is not when the sirens sound—it’s now."
Most survival guides assume you live in the woods, have acres of land, or access to a bunker. But what about those of us living in high-rise flats, packed city blocks, or neighbourhoods where looting would spread before the power even goes out?
At The Awakened Prepper, we understand that the rules of survival change dramatically in urban environments. Whether it’s a blackout, civil unrest, cyberattack, flood, food shortage, or full-blown apocalyptic event, modern city dwellers need a unique set of tools and strategies to survive and thrive.
This section is your free resource hub for urban and apocalyptic survival, offering practical, real-world strategies tailored for those living in cities like London, New York, Berlin, or São Paulo.
🔹 Field-Tested Government & Military Manuals (Free PDFs)
✏️ UK Government – Preparing for Emergencies (PDF)
gov.uk/government/publications/preparing-for-emergencies
A practical 22-page guide issued to UK households. Covers home security, food/water, and staying informed.
🇺🇸 FEMA – Are You Ready? (Citizen Preparedness Guide)
ready.gov/are-you-ready-guide
A full manual from FEMA with checklists for blackouts, grid failures, and sheltering in place.
🇸🇪 Sweden – If Crisis or War Comes
msb.se
Sweden's civil defense guide issued to every household. Translated into English. Excellent for mindset and essentials.
🇩🇪 Germany – Emergency Preparedness Guide
bkk.bund.de
Step-by-step for food, water, heat, and medication storage, tailored for flats and homes.
⚕️ Where There Is No Doctor
hesperian.org
A globally respected free medical survival book used in war zones and rural collapse. Over 400 pages.
🔹 Urban Survival Guides & Tactical Kits
🔌 The Prepared – Emergency Supplies Checklist
theprepared.com
Modern, realistic gear recommendations from expert preppers with apartment dwellers in mind.
✉️ The One Year Urban Survival Plan
urbansurvivalsite.com
Step-by-step 12-month urban prep plan: food, water, first aid, bug-out bags, and skills.
🛎 Apartment Prepper Blog
apartmentprepper.com
Decades of content on prepping in small flats, from security to stash hacks to alternative heat sources.
⛏️ The Bug Out Bag Guide – Urban Kit Planning
thebugoutbagguide.com
How to build a city-friendly get-home or go-bag, with urban-specific gear (masks, pry tools, lights, radios).
🔹 Declassified CIA & Military-Use Documents
🕵️♂️ CIA Survival Training Manual (1950s)
cia.gov reading room
Covers basic survival, escape, evasion, water sourcing, shelter, and crisis adaptation.
🔮 The Adam and Eve Story (Cataclysm & Reset Theory)
cia.gov reading room
This document describes Earth's cyclical destruction from magnetic pole shifts and natural resets.
🔎 The Black Vault Archive
theblackvault.com
Tens of thousands of searchable declassified government files, including collapse planning, food scarcity, and civil defense.
🔹 Courses, Videos & Multimedia Content (Free)
🎓 FEMA IS-317 CERT Basic Training (Free Certificate Course)
training.fema.gov
Covers light rescue, first aid, disaster psychology, neighborhood organization, and fire suppression.
🎥 City Prepping (YouTube)
youtube.com/c/CityPrepping
Crisis alerts and strategy for apartments, urban evacuation, and low-cost preparedness.
📚 DisasterReady.org
disasterready.org
Over 1,000 free courses and field manuals on community response, humanitarian aid, and urban emergency response.
📅 Johns Hopkins – Psychological First Aid Course (Free)
coursera.org
A short but powerful course to help you and your community mentally survive chaos and disaster.
🔹 Psychological & Community Survival, Bartering, and Collapse Skills
🧐 Psychological First Aid Field Guide
nctsn.org
Used by frontline responders worldwide. Teaches how to manage fear, trauma, and mental health during crisis.
🤝 FEMA Neighborhood Preparedness Toolkit
ready.gov
Build your own local survival network. Great for flats, communities, and tower blocks.
🥇 Survival Bartering Guide
offgridsurvival.com
Top 20 barter items to store, including what became valuable in Venezuela, Bosnia, and post-hurricane zones.
🔨 Apartment Security & DIY Fortification
shtfpreparedness.com
How to secure your door, stash supplies, hide valuables, and create layered defense in urban flats.
🔹 Bonus: Free Survival eBooks & PDF Libraries
📚 TruePrepper's Free PDF Library
trueprepper.com/survival-pdfs-downloads
150+ survival field guides, first aid manuals, military handbooks, homesteading, urban tactics, and more.
🖋 UrbanSurvivalSite eBook Library
urbansurvivalsite.com/ebooks
Free downloads on bug out planning, apartment prepping, escape & evasion, and prepping psychology.
📏 Ragnar Benson – Urban Survival (Archive)
archive.org
An underground classic. Lessons learned from survivalists in real collapse zones.
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Disaster-proof your apartment. Outthink collapse.
This is survival for the city soul.
