Resilience by Design

• Main Author: Lee, Alexandra Jayeun (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications,
• Subjects: Geography.; Natural disasters.; Urban geography.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Human geography.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Regional/Spatial Science.; Human Geography.; Natural Hazards.

This book discusses that disasters, whether natural or man-made, are essentially a human phenomenon. When a city becomes gridlocked and its resources depleted, the collective resilience of those who remain on the ground becomes critical to its immediate survival and recovery. The author argues that...

Table of Contents:

• Part I. Understanding Resilience
• 1. Design Agency
• Architecture and Disasters
• Dilemmas of Disaster Urbanism
• Bridging the Gap
• 2. Systems Thinking
• Design as a Method
• Operationalizing Wicked Problems
• 3. Paradoxes of Building Back Better
• Communicating Resilience
• Societal Pathologies
• Design Strategies
• Part II. Resilient Tactics and Strategies
• 4. Haiti: NGO’s Republic
• Setting the Scene: Wicked Problems
• Civic Resilience: the Haitian Way
• Social Equity: Haitian Diaspora
• Design Outlier: Bati Byen
• 5. Katrina: Collective Resistance
• Starchitecture and Community Design
• Politics of Unbuilding
• Design Equity
• Public Interest Design as Activism
• 6. Christchurch: Going Grassroots
• The Polarized City
• Emergent Community Leaders
• A People’s Republic of Christchurch
• Architecture of Tomorrow
• Conclusion
• Index
• List of Interviewees.