Overview
- Rediscovery of the Horst Rittel’s framework on design thinking as an effective way to understand post-disaster decision-making process and the design context
- Consolidates the views of emergent designers and activists
- Adds an architectural perspective on the international dialogue on urban disaster research
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications (ASTSA)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Understanding Resilience
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Resilient Tactics and Strategies
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About this book
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 in order to build resilient futures for our urban environment, we need more than the skills of architects, engineers, and planners. Support of local communities and policymakers is also needed.
The book revisits the recent catastrophic events: the earthquakes in Port-au-Prince and Christchurch, and the hurricane in New Orleans, and places emphasis on the social, cultural, and political processes of rebuilding houses, facilities, and infrastructure that often go unnoticed. Understanding the wider context for how a built project comes to be, the author argues, is a solid indicator of its longevity than by the measure of itsmaterial characteristics alone, and gives us reasons to question the validity of our intentions as designers of the future. This book provides strategies for thinking about, assessing, and developing ways for place-makers from all disciplines to become responsible citizen designers of our cities.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Resilience by Design
Authors: Alexandra Jayeun Lee
Series Title: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30641-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-30639-1Published: 10 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80857-4Published: 25 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-30641-4Published: 24 February 2016
Series ISSN: 1613-5113
Series E-ISSN: 2363-9466
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 157
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Regional/Spatial Science, Human Geography, Natural Hazards