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Urban Resilience in a Global Context

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This volume moves beyond praise and critique by focusing on the actors, agendas, and narratives that define urban resilience in a global context. By exploring the past, present, and future of urban...
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  • 27 October 2020
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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.
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Price: $35.00
Pages: 224
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Urban Studies
Publication Date: 27 October 2020
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837650181
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
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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.

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