Architecture and Resilience

Resilience will be a defining quality of the twenty-first century. As we witness the increasingly turbulent effects of climate change the multiple challenges of resource depletion and wage stagnation we know that our current ways of living are not resilient.This volume takes resilience as a transformative concept to ask where and what architecture might contribute. Bringing together cross-disciplinary perspectives from architecture urban design art geography building science and psychoanalysis it aims to open up multiple perspectives of research spatial strategies and projects that are testing how we can build local resilience in preparation for major societal challenges defining the position of architecture in urban resilience discourse.Chapter 16 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at taylorfrancis under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 3.0 license.