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Designing, planning, and managing resilient cities: A conceptual framework
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In this paper, a conceptual resilience framework is proposed for designing, planning, and managing for resilience by including an evaluation of cultural and process dynamics within cities as well as their physical elements.About:
This article is published in Cities.The article was published on 2013-12-01. It has received 380 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Resilience (network) & Conceptual framework.read more
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Defining urban resilience: A review
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify six conceptual tensions fundamental to urban resilience: definition of urban resilience, understanding of system equilibrium, positive vs. neutral (or negative) conceptualizations of resilience, mechanisms for system change, adaptation versus general adaptability, and timescale of action.
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Urban resilience for whom, what, when, where, and why?
Sara Meerow,Joshua P. Newell +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a three-phase process is introduced to enable these "five Ws" to be negotiated collectively and to engender critical reflection on the politics of urban resilience as plans, initiatives, and projects are conceived, discussed, and implemented.
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Smart cities: concepts, architectures, research opportunities
Rida Khatoun,Sherali Zeadally +1 more
TL;DR: The aim is to improve cities' management of natural and municipal resources and in turn the quality of life of their citizens.
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Urban resilience: A conceptual framework
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the scientific and technical literature about urban resilience highlighting its definitions, dimensions, application areas, characteristics and challenges and opportunities, and concluded that urban resilience is based on four basic pillars: resisting, recovering, adapting and transforming.
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Smart utopia VS smart reality: Learning by experience from 10 smart city cases
TL;DR: In this article, the authors perform an analysis of 10 representative international city cases that claim to be smart and depict a brief view of the future smart city. The analysis is based on a multi-method that combines literature evidence, official websites and reports, narrative city walks, and interviews with corresponding officials.
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From Metaphor to Measurement: Resilience of What to What?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare resilience properties in two contrasting socioecological systems, lake districts and rangelands, with respect to the following three general features: (a) the ability of an SES to stay in the domain of attraction is related to slowly changing variables, or slowly changing disturbance regimes, which control the boundaries of the area of attraction or the frequency of events that could push the system across the boundaries.
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Cities in a world economy
TL;DR: The New Urban Economy: The Intersection of Global Processes and Place as mentioned in this paper is an example of a new urban economy that is based on economic globalization and place and production in the global economy.
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Urban ecological systems: linking terrestrial ecological, physical, and socioeconomic components of metropolitan areas
Steward T. A. Pickett,Mary L. Cadenasso,J. M. Grove,Charles H. Nilon,Richard V. Pouyat,Wayne C. Zipperer,Robert Costanza +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an open definition of urban systems that accounts for the exchanges of material and influence between cities and surrounding landscapes is presented, which sets the stage for comprehensive understanding of urban ecosystems.
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