Urban Resilience in a Global Context : Actors, Narratives, and Temporalities / Dorothee Brantz, Avi Sharma
Urban Resilience is seen by many as a tool to mitigate harm in times of extreme social, political, financial, and environmental stress. Despite its widespread usage, however, resilience is used in different ways by policy makers, activists, academics, and practitioners. Some see it as a key to unloc...
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| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Urban Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Contesting Resilience 11 A Historical Perspective on Resilient Urbanism 35 North of the Arctic Circle 57 Growing Resilient Cities 77 Before 'Resilience' 101 No Easy Solutions 129 Building Resilience through Commercial Relations 147 Enhancing Urban Resilience After the 1995 Kobe Earthquake 167 Transportation as a Resilience Enhancing Tool 181 Urban Resilience Has a History - And a Future 209 Author Bios 217