Resilience in Planning

Getting Serious About Resilience in Planning

Resilience is a term much bandied about these days in the planning and development professions. Buildings, plans, economies and even cities are expected to be resilient to unforeseen externalities in a world of rapidly changing technologies, climates, and cultures. With this in mind, Kevin C. Desouza and his colleagues at the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech would like to engage you, the planning and development community, in a discussion of what exactly it means to be resilient in a planning context, whether this is a laudable goal, and, if so, how we can achieve it.

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http://www.planetizen.com/node/57827

http://www.commoncurrent.com/notes/2010/03/urban-resilience-planning-for.html



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