Urban Resilience: Methodologies, Tools and Evaluation: Theory and Practice

Foreword
Preface
Introduction
References
Contents
Chapter 1: Searching a Resilient City: A Study About Theoretical-Conceptual Joints Between Smart City and Urban Resilience
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Methodology
1.3 Smart City
1.4 Resilient Cities
1.5 Analysis: Conceptual Joints
1.6 Conclusions
References
Chapter 2: Framing ‘Resilient Cities’: System Versus Community Focused Interpretations of Urban Climate Resilience
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Urban Resilience to Climate Change
2.3 Framing Climate Change Adaptation and Urban Climate Resilience: Resilient Future of Who or What, Exactly?
2.4 Frames of Urban Resilience in the Scientific Literature
2.5 A System Resilience Frame: Climate Change as a Challenge to Urban Functioning
2.6 A Community Resilience Frame: Climate Change as a Challenge to Social Cohesion
2.7 Conclusions
References
Chapter 3: Townscape Catalogues Toward Urban Resilience and Sustainability
3.1 Towards Urban Planning Centered on a Landscape-Based Approach
3.1.1 Townscape Catalogues
3.1.2 The Landscape Approach
3.1.3 The Proposed Methodology
3.2 The Design of the Townscape Catalogue
3.2.1 Identification
3.2.2 Characterization
3.2.3 Assessment
3.3 Possible Derivations of This Method Towards Urban Resilience
3.4 Conclusions
References
Chapter 4: Building Resilient and Sustainable Cities Starting from the Urban Transport System
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Urban Challenges in Global Changes
4.2.1 City Issues Affecting Resilience
4.3 Urban Sustained Adaptability Conceptualization
4.3.1 City Assets
4.4 A Big Knowledge-Information-Data Approach
4.4.1 The Challenge of Measuring Resilience
4.5 Operationalize the City Resilience Concept: The Urban Transport System Case Study
4.5.1 Why Is the UTS Critical?
4.5.2 UTS Complexity
4.5.3 Threats Exposure
4.5.4 UTS Resilience
4.6 Work in RESOLUTE
4.6.1 Applying the KID Approach from a UTS Operator’s Perspective
4.6.2 Big Data Management and Policy Issues
4.6.3 Application Framework
4.6.4 Collaborative Resilience Assessment and Management Support System (CRAMSS)
4.6.5 Mobile Emergency App
4.6.6 Game Based Training App
4.7 Conclusions
References
Chapter 5: Creating a Resilient City: A Community Focused Approach in Bogota, Colombia
5.1 Introduction
5.1.1 A Colombian Context
5.2 Literature Review
5.2.1 Urban Resilience
5.2.2 Individual Resilience
5.2.3 Community Resilience
5.3 Methodology
5.4 Results
5.4.1 LGBTI Centres
5.4.2 Cultural Freedom, IDARTES and a Festival
5.4.2.1 La Cumbre
5.4.2.2 Hip-Hop
5.4.2.3 March for Peace
5.5 Discussion
5.6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: Resilience and Sustainability in Urban Socioecosystems: A Conceptual Reflection
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Signs and Causes of the Problem
6.3 Socioecocentrism
6.4 Adjusting the Collaborative Framework from Socioecocentrism
6.4.1 Adjustments in the Cognitive Perspectives
6.4.2 Adjustments in Intervention Approaches
6.4.2.1 Intercultural Inclusion
6.4.2.2 Expand Stakeholder Participation
6.4.3 Adjustments at the Level of Work Dynamics
6.4.3.1 Inter and Transdisciplinary Work Dynamics
6.4.3.2 Transversal Co-responsibility of the Institutions
6.4.4 Adjustments at the Level of Models and Instruments
6.5 Epilogue
References
Chapter 7: System Approach to Resilience-Based Design: Political Decisions and Steps Towards Antifragility
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Resilience-Based Design
7.2.1 System Representation
7.2.2 Time Horizon of Events and Hazard Representation
7.2.3 Decisions and Data Driven Modelling
7.2.3.1 Representation of Decisions
7.2.3.2 Data Collection for Data Driven Modelling
7.3 Antifragility Challenges and Risk Assessment
7.4 Conclusions
References
Chapter 8: An Integrated Methodological Framework to Assess Urban Resilience
8.1 Introduction
8.1.1 The Need for a New Conceptual Perspective
8.1.2 Integrated Tools to Assess Urban Resilience
8.2 Definition of Indicators. The IDIS Approach
8.2.1 Indicators as Tools for an Improved Resilience
8.2.2 The IDIS Hierarchical Approach
8.2.3 Resilience Thresholds
8.2.4 The Case of Galapagos Islands
8.3 Dynamic Simulation Models
8.3.1 The System Dynamics Approach
8.3.2 The Case of Murcia City and Its Periurban Agro-ecosystem
8.4 Vulnerability and Policy Assessment
8.4.1 Policies, Scenarios and Vulnerability
8.4.2 Assessing Policy Measures for Urban Resilience in Fuerteventura
8.5 Uncertainty Assessment
8.5.1 Uncertainty and Urban Resilience
8.5.2 Assessing Uncertainty under Policy Measures and Scenarios in Fuerteventura
8.6 Conclusions. A Framework to Support Decisions for an Improved Resilience
References
Chapter 9: Sustainable and Resilience Descriptors for the Xochimilco-Tláhuac Lacustrine Area at México City
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA)
9.3 Xochimilco-Tláhuac Polygon (XT-P)
9.4 Method
9.5 Results
9.5.1 Natural Setting
9.5.1.1 Water
9.5.1.2 Air
9.5.1.3 Land
9.5.2 Built Setting
9.5.2.1 Transportation
9.5.2.2 Urban services
9.5.2.3 Energy
9.5.3 Economic Setting
9.5.4 Social Setting
9.5.5 Governance Setting
9.6 Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 10: Eco-neighborhoods as a Way to Strengthen Urban Resilience
10.1 Introduction
10.1.1 The Sustainable Livable City
10.2 Eco-neighborhoods
10.2.1 Defining an Eco-neighborhood
10.2.2 Elements of an Eco-neighborhood
10.2.3 Objectives of Eco-neighborhoods
10.2.4 Are Current Eco-neighborhoods Really Ecological?
10.2.5 Ecobarrios Throughout the World
10.2.5.1 Viikki, Helsinki, Finland
10.2.5.2 Vauban in Freiburg, Germany
10.2.5.3 BedZED in England
10.3 Conclusions
References