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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brantz, Dorothee (Editor ), Sharma, Avi (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2020]
Colección:Urban Studies
Temas:
Social sciences.
Social Sciences
Sciences sociales.
social sciences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Social sciences
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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contesting Resilience
  • A Historical Perspective on Resilient Urbanism
  • North of the Arctic Circle
  • Growing Resilient Cities
  • Before 'Resilience'
  • No Easy Solutions
  • Building Resilience through Commercial Relations
  • Enhancing Urban Resilience After the 1995 Kobe Earthquake
  • Transportation as a Resilience Enhancing Tool
  • Urban Resilience Has a History
  • And a Future
  • Author Bios

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