Urban resilience planning for risk crisis and uncertainty 1st Edition by Jon Coaffee, Peter Lee ISBN 9781137288844 1137288841

Part I Towards a Framework for Resilient Planning and Urban Living

Chapter 1 Why Does Urban Resilience Matter?

The emerging requirement for urban resilience

Approaching the study of urban resilience

Structure of the book

Chapter 2 The Origins, Evolution and Critiques of Resilience

The dominance of the socio-ecological equilibrium model

Towards an evolutionary approach

Resilience for whom, and by whom? A critique of contemporary resilience

The transition towards evolutionary resilience

Part II Processes of Urban Resilience

Chapter 3 The Resilience Turn in Planning Policy and Practice

The resilience turn in urban policy

Emerging styles of urban resilience

Towards holistic urban resilience

Chapter 4 Urban Resilience as Adaptive or Maladaptive?

Learning from the fracture-critical past

Maladaptive planning

Learning from planning and design weaknesses

Key lessons in planning for resilience

Chapter 5 Assessing City Resilience

Assessing cities’ preparedness for disaster

Assessing urban and city resilience

Understanding the assessment of urban resilience: Reflections on methods and techniques

How do we better assess urban resilience?

Part III Urban Resilience in Practice

Chapter 6 Adaptive Resilience to Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events

Framing climate change adaptation

Recovering from and mitigating climate change

Planning for long-term climate change adaptation

Climate resilience and transformative planning

Towards a transformative urban resilience agenda for climate change

Chapter 7 Security-driven Urban Resilience

Planning and design for counter terrorism: A historical context

The mainstreaming of security features into the planning process

Planning security-driven urban resilience measures: From circumvention to co-option?

Chapter 8 Coping with Large-scale Disasters

Anticipating shock: The planning and resilience context for Japan

The triple disaster of March 2011

Post-disaster reconstruction and resilience planning

Learning from Tohoku: Recovery, redundancy and rebuilding communities

Chapter 9 Preparing for ‘Slow-burn’ Shock Events

Slow-burn events and self-restoring equilibrium dynamics

Panarchy and regional housing markets

Evolutionary resilience in slow-burn events and the role of agents

Understanding slow-burn events and their implications for developing urban and regional resilience

Chapter 10 Anticipating the Future: Planning the Resilient City of Tomorrow

Planning for risk, crisis and uncertainty

Urban resilience as a new planning paradigm

The future of urban resilience

Postscript: Post-2015 dialogues and implications for planning practice

Bibliography

Index