Urban resilience: planning for risk, crisis and uncertainty / by Jon Coaffee and Peter Lee

By:

Coaffee, Jon

Contributor(s):

Lee, Peter

Language: English Series: Planning, Environment, CitiesPublication details: Palgrave macmillan, 2016.Description: xiv, 306pISBN:

9781137288820

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

363.348 COA-U

Contents:

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

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Library, SPAB F-2	Non Fiction	363.348 COA-U (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Rec. by N R Mandal		010894

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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.

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