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Urban Resilience
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.
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.
320 pages, Hardcover
Published May 16, 2016
About the author
Jon Coaffee
13 booksJon Coaffee is professor in urban geography and director of the Resilient Cities Laboratory at the University of Warwick, and an exchange professor at New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP).
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Brief Summary
All in all I think this book highlights a very interesting perspective and tool we urban planners (or those interested in the built environment) should use more to shape the way we fundamentally think about how the built environment both impacts society and how we can look for ways to mold existing and new environments to leave a legacy of development that responds positively to a wide range of socio-economic or climatic scenarios and stimuli overtime.
My Thoughts
This was the main book I used as a base for my literature review for my masters dissertation in urban planning. This book is genuinely eye-opening on what makes certain areas urban resilient or not and explains the concepts of urban resilience really well alongside great case studies that cover a range of topics. I personally used this concept in relation to the existing and new housing development within the UK, applying how we could and should be thinking to prevent maladaptive approaches in traditional housebuilding and retrofitting properties from carrying on into the future to build a more resilient housing stock, reducing the significant carbon burden within the sector and reducing the major societal issues surrounding fuel poverty.
" Hello" .
Chapter 3, Page 82.
Brief Summary
All in all I think this book highlights a very interesting perspective and tool we urban planners (or those interested in the built environment) should use more to shape the way we fundamentally think about how the built environment both impacts society and how we can look for ways to mold existing and new environments to leave a legacy of development that responds positively to a wide range of socio-economic or climatic scenarios and stimuli overtime.
My Thoughts
This was the main book I used as a base for my literature review for my masters dissertation in urban planning. This book is genuinely eye-opening on what makes certain areas urban resilient or not and explains the concepts of urban resilience really well alongside great case studies that cover a range of topics. I personally used this concept in relation to the existing and new housing development within the UK, applying how we could and should be thinking to prevent maladaptive approaches in traditional housebuilding and retrofitting properties from carrying on into the future to build a more resilient housing stock, reducing the significant carbon burden within the sector and reducing the major societal issues surrounding fuel poverty.
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