Urban Resilience in a Global Context : Actors, Narratives, and Temporalities / Dorothee Brantz, Avi Sharma

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910424956303321
• Autore: Brantz Dorothee
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020
• ISBN: 3-8394-5018-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Collana: Urban Studies
• Disciplina: 307.1216
• Soggetti: Resilience; Urban History; Sustainable Development; Urban Nature; Political Ecology; International Development; Infrastructure; Climate Change; Resource Management; Right To the City; Germany; Colombia; Mexico; New Zealand; France; Japan; Belgium; City; Nature; Globalization; Urban Studies; Sustainability; Neoliberalism; Sociology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 unlocking a more stable and secure urban future in times of extreme global insecurity; for others, it is a neoliberal technology that marginalizes the voices of already marginal peoples. This volume moves beyond praise and critique by focusing on the actors, narratives and temporalities that define urban resilience in a global context. By exploring the past, present, and future of urban resilience, this volume unlocks the potential of this concept to build more sustainable, inclusive, and secure cities in the 21st century.