Urban resilience : planning for risk, crisis and uncertainty /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Coaffee, Jon (Author), Lee, Peter, 1962- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Series:Planning, environment, cities (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Towards a framework for resilient planning and urban living. Why does urban resilience matter?
  • The origins, evolution and critiques of resilience
  • part 2. Processes of urban resilience. The resilience turn in planning policy and practice
  • Urban resilience as adaptive or maladaptive?
  • Assessing city reslience
  • part 3. Urban resilience in practice. Adaptive resilience to climate change and extreme weather events
  • Security-driven urban resilience
  • Coping with large-scale disasters
  • Preparting for 'slow-burn' shock events
  • Anticipating the future: planning the resilient city of tomorrow.