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Urban Resilience (Paperback, 1st Ed. 2017)
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Urban Resilience (Paperback, 1st Ed. 2017)
Series: Planning, Environment, Cities
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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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