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Urban Resilience in a Global Context Actors, Narratives, and Temporalities Dorothee Brantz, Avi Sharma
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Urban Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- 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.
- Local Subjects:
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Brantz/Sharma (eds.), Urban Resilience in a Global Context Actors, Narratives, and Temporalities
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- 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.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 http://www.transcript-verlag.de/open-access-bei-transcript
- ISBN:
- 9783839450185
- 3839450187
- OCLC:
- 1202624815
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