Introduction: Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning

Abstract

This book has two main objectives. First, the intention is to discuss how well equipped contemporary planning theory and practice is in preparing urban areas to face the new conditions that have resulted from the neoliberal spatial agenda in an increasingly borderless world and its ability to address the escalating numbers of hazards, most of which are triggered by rising levels of consumption. Second, it aims to discuss the characteristics of a new theoretical approach to planning that may assist in the creation of resilient cities that are able to adapt to both slow changes and major pressures.