The chapter discusses the Resilient City metaphor and outlines its potential for enhancing cities’ capacities to tackle complexities and uncertainties arising from current and future climate scenarios. Starting from a brief introduction of the Resilient City Metaphor, this contribution focuses on the complex evolution of the resilience concept across different disciplinary fields and on the growing number of initiatives aimed at supporting resilience-building processes at city scale. In detail, the advances of the resilience concept achieved in the last decade, when the concept entered the urban studies domain, the main strengths and weaknesses of current Resilient City Initiatives and the persisting difficulties to connect resilience theory and practice will be discussed. Finally, the opportunities open out by the idea of ‘evolutionary resilience’ (Davoudi et al. 2012) for better guiding cities in developing proactive and tailored to the site responses to climate change will be explored.
The Resilient City Metaphor to Enhance Cities’ Capabilities to Tackle Complexities and Uncertainties Arising From Current and Future Climate Scenarios
Galderisi
2018
Abstract
The chapter discusses the Resilient City metaphor and outlines its potential for enhancing cities’ capacities to tackle complexities and uncertainties arising from current and future climate scenarios. Starting from a brief introduction of the Resilient City Metaphor, this contribution focuses on the complex evolution of the resilience concept across different disciplinary fields and on the growing number of initiatives aimed at supporting resilience-building processes at city scale. In detail, the advances of the resilience concept achieved in the last decade, when the concept entered the urban studies domain, the main strengths and weaknesses of current Resilient City Initiatives and the persisting difficulties to connect resilience theory and practice will be discussed. Finally, the opportunities open out by the idea of ‘evolutionary resilience’ (Davoudi et al. 2012) for better guiding cities in developing proactive and tailored to the site responses to climate change will be explored.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.