Urban resilience : planning for risk, crisis and uncertainty

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As the cities of the world increasingly come under threat from crisis and disaster, planners are searching for ways to build resilience into the foundations of modern urban centres. This important book provides a comprehensive account of the theory and practice of urban resilience in response to a range of disruptions, including terrorism, climate change and economic crises. It examines how the concepts and principles of resilience exert increasing significant influence over the form and function of planning. Discussing a 'politics of resilience' in which fundamental questions of social and spatial justice are posed, this book examines how urban planners are increasingly tasked with the responsibility of safeguarding the future of urbanised centres and those that live in them. Drawing on international examples and detailed case-studies, this book provides a nuanced account of the uses, and misuses, of resilience and points a way forward for planning activity, from an approach that is too often narrowly technical in focus towards an integrated and adaptable model for coping with risk, crisis and uncertainty. It will make essential reading for students of urban planning and researchers alike. Cover Contents List of Figures, Tables and Boxes Acknowledgements Part I Towards a Framework for Resilient Planning and Urban Living Chapter 1 Why Does Urban Resilience Matter? The emerging requirement for urban resilience Approaching the study of urban resilience Structure of the book Chapter 2 The Origins, Evolution and Critiques of Resilience The dominance of the socio-ecological equilibrium model Towards an evolutionary approach Resilience for whom, and by whom? A critique of contemporary resilience The transition towards evolutionary resilience Part II Processes of Urban Resilience Chapter 3 The Resilience Turn in Planning Policy and Practice The resilience turn in urban policy Emerging styles of urban resilience Towards holistic urban resilience Chapter 4 Urban Resilience as Adaptive or Maladaptive? Learning from the fracture-critical past Maladaptive planning Learning from planning and design weaknesses Key lessons in planning for resilience Chapter 5 Assessing City Resilience Assessing cities’ preparedness for disaster Assessing urban and city resilience Understanding the assessment of urban resilience: Reflections on methods and techniques How do we better assess urban resilience? Part III Urban Resilience in Practice Chapter 6 Adaptive Resilience to Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events Framing climate change adaptation Recovering from and mitigating climate change Planning for long-term climate change adaptation Climate resilience and transformative planning Towards a transformative urban resilience agenda for climate change Chapter 7 Security-driven Urban Resilience Planning and design for counter terrorism: A historical context The mainstreaming of security features into the planning process Planning security-driven urban resilience measures: From circumvention to co-option? Chapter 8 Coping with Large-scale Disasters Anticipating shock: The planning and resilience context for Japan The triple disaster of March 2011 Post-disaster reconstruction and resilience planning Learning from Tohoku: Recovery, redundancy and rebuilding communities Chapter 9 Preparing for ‘Slow-burn’ Shock Events Slow-burn events and self-restoring equilibrium dynamics Panarchy and regional housing markets Evolutionary resilience in slow-burn events and the role of agents Understanding slow-burn events and their implications for developing urban and regional resilience Chapter 10 Anticipating the Future: Planning the Resilient City of Tomorrow Planning for risk, crisis and uncertainty Urban resilience as a new planning paradigm The future of urban resilience Postscript: Post-2015 dialogues and implications for planning practice Bibliography Index