Urban Resilience and Urban Planning Innovation

Abstract

In a world in growing turbulence,complexity and uncertainty,where crisis is becoming the norm rather than the exception,resilience is increasingly seen as a critical feature that reflects the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize without collapsing. The concept of resilience adds a new perspective to the issue of new urbanization. The main purpose of this paper is to stimulate debate on the concept of resilience and its utility. The paper firstly traces the origin of resilience and unpacks its three fundamentally different meanings; secondly,presents the development of urban resilience research; and finally,explores resilience as a concept and as a framework for promoting urban planning innovation.