We are entering a new urban era where the planet is increasingly influenced by human activities and where cities have become a central nexus of the relationship between people and nature, both as crucial centers of demand for ecosystem services, and as sources of environmental impacts. Resilience is the capacity of individuals, communities, businesses, and systems within a city to survive, adapt and grow not just as a response to shocks (such as heat, fires and floods) – but also to the stresses that weaken the fabric of a city on a day-to-day or cyclical basis. Examples of these stresses include, but are not limited to the rapid population growth, increasing social inequality, increasing pressures on our natural assets, unemployment, and climate change. In this research topic, we invite manuscripts that help built environment professionals to share in strengthening the communities and cities as they prepare for the challenges of future.
Our built environments are increasingly facing unprecedented challenges linked to issues such as rapid population growth, environmental degradation, extreme weather events and growing social inequalities. During the last few years, numerous cities worldwide have initiated urban resilience strategies to identify context-specific challenges and to develop suitable actions. Drawing on the lack of knowledge on how these new city strategies are translated into practice, this research topic seeks to better understand the new norms and mechanisms of urban resilience in action towards a sustainable built environment. This research topic aims to encourage discourses on approaches towards resilience under the following domains: physical environment approach (design & planning, strategies, facilities, systems); social and communal approaches (community development and strategies, policy developments); smart intervention approaches (future projected approaches), to better understand the structures and mechanisms of innovative urban built environment experiments for resilience.
We are entering a new urban era where the planet is increasingly influenced by human activities and where cities have become a central nexus of the relationship between people and nature, both as crucial centers of demand for ecosystem services, and as sources of environmental impacts. Resilience is the capacity of individuals, communities, businesses, and systems within a city to survive, adapt and grow not just as a response to shocks (such as heat, fires and floods) – but also to the stresses that weaken the fabric of a city on a day-to-day or cyclical basis. Examples of these stresses include, but are not limited to the rapid population growth, increasing social inequality, increasing pressures on our natural assets, unemployment, and climate change. In this research topic, we invite manuscripts that help built environment professionals to share in strengthening the communities and cities as they prepare for the challenges of future.
Our built environments are increasingly facing unprecedented challenges linked to issues such as rapid population growth, environmental degradation, extreme weather events and growing social inequalities. During the last few years, numerous cities worldwide have initiated urban resilience strategies to identify context-specific challenges and to develop suitable actions. Drawing on the lack of knowledge on how these new city strategies are translated into practice, this research topic seeks to better understand the new norms and mechanisms of urban resilience in action towards a sustainable built environment. This research topic aims to encourage discourses on approaches towards resilience under the following domains: physical environment approach (design & planning, strategies, facilities, systems); social and communal approaches (community development and strategies, policy developments); smart intervention approaches (future projected approaches), to better understand the structures and mechanisms of innovative urban built environment experiments for resilience.
