Urban resilience:
Coaffee, Jon
Urban resilience: planning for risk, crisis and uncertainty / by Jon Coaffee and Peter Lee - Palgrave macmillan, 2016. - xiv, 306p. - Planning, Environment, Cities. .
Part i: Towards a framework for resilient planning and urban living --
1. Why does urban resilience matter? --
2. The origins, evolution and critiques of resilience part ii: processes of urban resilience --
3. The resilience turn in planning policy and practice --
4. Urban resilience as adaptive or maladaptive? --
5. Assessing city resilience part iii: urban resilience in practice --
6. Adaptive resilience to climate change and extreme weather events --
7. Security-driven urban resilience --
8. Coping with large-scale disasters --
9. Preparing for 'slow-burn' shock events --
10. Anticipating the future: planning the resilient city of tomorrow
In the century of the city when crisis has become the new normal, planners are trying to find ways to make cities less vulnerable and to build in resilience. Drawing on international examples and detailed case-studies, this book examines the theory and practice of urban resilience in response to a range of disruptions.
9781137288820
URP
363.348 / COA-U
Urban resilience: planning for risk, crisis and uncertainty / by Jon Coaffee and Peter Lee - Palgrave macmillan, 2016. - xiv, 306p. - Planning, Environment, Cities. .
Part i: Towards a framework for resilient planning and urban living --
1. Why does urban resilience matter? --
2. The origins, evolution and critiques of resilience part ii: processes of urban resilience --
3. The resilience turn in planning policy and practice --
4. Urban resilience as adaptive or maladaptive? --
5. Assessing city resilience part iii: urban resilience in practice --
6. Adaptive resilience to climate change and extreme weather events --
7. Security-driven urban resilience --
8. Coping with large-scale disasters --
9. Preparing for 'slow-burn' shock events --
10. Anticipating the future: planning the resilient city of tomorrow
In the century of the city when crisis has become the new normal, planners are trying to find ways to make cities less vulnerable and to build in resilience. Drawing on international examples and detailed case-studies, this book examines the theory and practice of urban resilience in response to a range of disruptions.
9781137288820
URP
363.348 / COA-U