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Introduction: Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning

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Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning

Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library ((GEJL,volume 106))

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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.

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  1. Department of City and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, Universiteler Mah. Dumlupinar Bulv. No: 1, 06800, Ankara, Turkey

    Ayda Eraydin

  2. OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, 2628 BX, Delft, The Netherlands

    Tuna Taşan-Kok

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    Ayda Eraydin

  2. OTB Research Inst. Housing,, Urban & Mobility Studies, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 9, Delft, 2628 BX, Netherlands

    Tuna Taşan-Kok

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Eraydin, A., Taşan-Kok, T. (2013). Introduction: Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning. In: Eraydin, A., Taşan-Kok, T. (eds) Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning. GeoJournal Library, vol 106. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5476-8_1

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