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

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

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 unloc...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: TU Berlin funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Brantz, Dorothee (Editor), Brantz, Dorothee editor (editor), Sharma, Avi editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020
Bielefeld : [2020]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Urban Studies
Materias:
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;
Belgium.
City.
Climate Change.
Colombia.
France.
Germany.
Globalization.
Infrastructure.
International Development.
Japan.
Mexico.
Nature.
Neoliberalism.
New Zealand.
Political Ecology.
Resource Management.
Right To the City.
Sociology.
Sustainability.
Sustainable Development.
Urban History.
Urban Nature.
Urban Studies.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429965206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

Ejemplares similares