Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning

✍ Scribed by Ayda Eraydin, Tuna Taşan-Kok (auth.), Ayda Eraydin, Tuna Taşan-Kok (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 255
• Series: GeoJournal Library 106
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology. The increased frequency and widening diversity of problems offer evidence that the socio-economic and spatial policies, planning and practices introduced under the neoliberal agenda can no longer be sustained. As this shortfall was becoming more evident among urban policymakers, planners, and researchers in different parts of the world, a group of discontent researchers began searching for new approaches to addressing the increasing vulnerabilities of urban systems in the wake of growing socio-economic and ecological problems. This book is the joint effort of those who have long felt that contemporary planning systems and policies are inadequate in preparing cities for the future in an increasingly neoliberalising world. It argues that “resilience thinking” can form the basis of an alternative approach to planning. Drawing upon case studies from five cities in Europe, namely Lisbon, Porto, Istanbul, Stockholm, and Rotterdam, the book makes an exploration of the resilience perspective, raising a number of theoretical debates, and suggesting a new methodological approach based on empirical evidence. This book provides insights for intellectuals exploring alternative perspectives and principles of a new planning approach.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning....Pages 1-16
“Resilience Thinking” for Planning....Pages 17-37
Conceptual Overview of Resilience: History and Context....Pages 39-51
Urban Resilience and Spatial Dynamics....Pages 53-69
Analysing the Socio-Spatial Vulnerability to Drivers of Globalisation in Lisbon, Oporto, Istanbul, Stockholm and Rotterdam....Pages 71-91
Systems, Cultures and Styles: Spatial Planning in Portugal, Turkey, Sweden and the Netherlands....Pages 93-108
Managing Urban Change in Five European Urban Agglomerations: Key Policy Documents and Institutional Frameworks....Pages 109-130
Evaluating Resilience in Planning....Pages 131-144
Assessing Urban Resilience in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon: The Case of Alcântara....Pages 145-159
Evaluating Urban Policies from a Resilience Perspective: The Case of Oporto....Pages 161-177
The Evaluation of Different Processes of Spatial Development from a Resilience Perspective in Istanbul....Pages 179-196
Urban Resilience and Polycentricity: The Case of the Stockholm Urban Agglomeration....Pages 197-209
Urban Resilience, Climate Change and Land-Use Planning in Rotterdam....Pages 211-227
The Evaluation of Findings and Future of Resilience Thinking in Planning....Pages 229-239
Back Matter....Pages 241-249

✦ Subjects

Human Geography; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Regional/Spatial Science; Cities, Countries, Regions