Urban Resilience
Urban Resilience by Jon Coaffee, published by Macmillan Education UK on May 16, 2016, is a comprehensive exploration of urban resilience in the face of various crises, including terrorism, climate change, and economic challenges. This 1st edition, consisting of 320 pages, delves into the theory and practice of resilience as it applies to modern urban centers, highlighting the significant influence of resilience concepts on planning and development.
Readers will find a detailed examination of the responsibilities urban planners face in safeguarding urbanized areas and their inhabitants. The book discusses the ‘politics of resilience,’ addressing critical issues of social and spatial justice. Through international examples and case studies, it critiques the current technical focus of planning and advocates for a more integrated and adaptable approach to managing risk and uncertainty in urban environments. This edition serves as a valuable resource for students and researchers in fields such as architecture, urban planning, and sociology.
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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.
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