Urban Resilience in a Global Context: Actors, Narratives, and Temporalities

book: Urban Resilience in a Global Context

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2020

Urban Resilience in a Global Context

Actors, Narratives, and Temporalities

Edited by: Dorothee Brantz and Avi Sharma
Funded by: Technische Universität Berlin

In the series Urban Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839450185

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Dorothee Brantz is a professor of urban environmental history and the director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Technische Universität Berlin. Her research interests include urban environmental history, the history of war and peace, and the different temporalities of the urban.
Avi Sharma is a senior research fellow and assistant professor at the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Technische Universität Berlin. Sharma is particularly interested in irregular migration, urban and environmental histories. His ongoing work explores urban cases in postwar Germany and post-Partition South Asia.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	7
I). Introduction
Contesting Resilience Negotiating Shared Urban Futures Dorothee Brantz and Avi Sharma Open Access Download PDF	11
II). Ecologies of Resilience
A Historical Perspective on Resilient Urbanism The ‘Sociobiology of Cities’ and ‘Ecosystem Urbs’ in Belgium, 1900-1980 Koenraad Danneels, Bruno Notteboom and Greet De Block Open Access Download PDF	35
North of the Arctic Circle Ralph Erskine’s Mid-20^th Century Urban Planning and Design Projects in Kiruna and Svappavaara Ann Maudsley Open Access Download PDF	57
Growing Resilient Cities Urban Community Gardens and Disaster Recovery after the 2010/11 Canterbury/Christchurch Earthquakes Andreas Wesener Open Access Download PDF	77
Before ‘Resilience’ Surviving in Postwar Berlin, 1945-1950 Avi Sharma Open Access Download PDF	101
III). Infrastructures of Resilience
No Easy Solutions Global Cities, Natural Disasters, Development, and the Intellectual History of Resilience Thinking, 1960s to 1990s Sönke Kunkel Open Access Download PDF	129
Building Resilience through Commercial Relations The Formalization of Carwash Sites in Medellín Marcela López Open Access Download PDF	147
Enhancing Urban Resilience After the 1995 Kobe Earthquake Parks and Open Spaces as a Multi-Functional Resource Florian Hendrik Liedtke Open Access Download PDF	167
Transportation as a Resilience Enhancing Tool Urban Dualism and the Latin American City Diego Silva Ardila Open Access Download PDF	181
IV). Epilogue
Urban Resilience Has a History – And a Future Timothy Moss Open Access Download PDF	209
Author Bios Open Access Download PDF	217

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Keywords: 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

eBook

Published: October 27, 2020
ISBN: 9783839450185