The City Politics of an Urban Age: Urban Resilience Conceptualisations and Policies

12 Pages Posted: 24 Apr 2018 Last revised: 8 May 2018

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Adriana Sanchez

University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Built Environment Faculty

Jeroen van der Heijden

Victoria University of Wellington, School of Government; Australian National University, School of Regulation & Global Governance (RegNet)

Paul Osmond

University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of the Built Environment

Date Written: March 2018

Abstract

Around the globe, cities seek to improve their resilience to face the stresses and shocks that are expected from global climate change and other threats. In implementing urban resilience policies, they are guided by different urban resilience conceptualisations. What is meant by the concept differs between scholars, governments, as well as international organisations that seek to study, advise on and implement urban resilience policies and governance interventions. This article presents a review of the urban resilience literature since the 1970s. It seeks to map and interrogate dominant urban resilience conceptualisations, and decipher whether and how different understandings of the concept can result in essentially different policies and governance interventions and outcomes. In contrasting the ‘what’ of urban resilience (various conceptualisations) with the ‘why’ of urban resilience policy (bouncing back, falling forwards, persistence) it investigates approaches to overcome some of the key critiques to urban resilience policy and research.

Suggested Citation

Sanchez, Adriana and van der Heijden, Jeroen and Osmond, Paul, The City Politics of an Urban Age: Urban Resilience Conceptualisations and Policies (March 2018). Palgrave Communications, Vol. 4, Issue 1, pp. 25-25, 2018, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3162134 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41599-018-0074-z

Adriana Sanchez (Contact Author)

University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Built Environment Faculty ( email )

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Jeroen Van der Heijden

Victoria University of Wellington, School of Government ( email )

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Australian National University, School of Regulation & Global Governance (RegNet) ( email )

Australian National University
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Paul Osmond

University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of the Built Environment ( email )

4007 The Red Centre
Sydney, New South Wales 2052
Australia

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