Resilient Cities (2010)

Well, I’m not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We’ve known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane.
Michael Chertoff on CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. Aired Feb. 19, 20061

Theoretical concepts in academic and professional circles can seem to ebb and flow, as interest in an area gathers and dissipates. Judging from the recent number of conferences and special issues devoted to the subject (as well as the considerable response to our call for papers), resilience is having its moment. From its roots in ecology and the work of C.S. Holling in the 1970s, the concept has since been applied to such diverse fields as psychology, social welfare and disaster management. For our seventeenth volume of Critical Planning, we have assembled a collection of papers that not only deepen traditional understandings of resilience, but also inform urban planning theory and practice.

Volume 17

Resilient Cities (2010)

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