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Resilience Thinkingin Urban Planning; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction: Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning; 1.1 Main Novelties and Contributions of the Book; 1.2 Why is it the Right Time to Discuss 'Resilience' Within the Context of Planning Practice ?; 1.3 Why did the Concept of Resilience Become Attractive?; 1.4 The Structure and Basic Arguments of the Book; References; Chapter 2: "Resilience Thinking" for Planning; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 How do Global Economic Changes Affect the Vulnerability of Urban Systems?
2.2.1 Increasing Economic and Social Vulnerabilities in the Neoliberal Era2.2.2 Increasing Environmental and Spatial Vulnerabilities Due to Changes in Property Markets; 2.2.3 Democratic De fi cits and Vulnerability in Governance; 2.2.4 The Impact of Changes on Increasingly Vulnerable Urban Ecosystem s and the Sustainable Use of Urban Land; 2.3 Urban Planning and Policy in the Era of Globalisation : How Far are they Able to Prepare the Urban Systems to Unforeseen Disturbances ?; 2.4 Resilience Thinking as the Basis of a New Paradigm in Planning Practice; 2.5 Concluding Remarks; References
Chapter 3: Conceptual Overview of Resilience: History and Context3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Framing Resilience: Evolution of Resilience, from Ecological Sciences to Urban Planning; 3.2.1 Entry Points of Resilience in Ecology; 3.2.2 Entry Points of Resilience in Social Systems; 3.2.3 Entry Points of Resilience in Urban Systems; 3.2.4 Entry Points of Resilience in Urban Planning; 3.3 Attributes and Characteristics of Resilience: Defining and Measuring the Capacity of Urban Systems; 3.4 Concluding Remarks: Towards Urban Resilience; References; Chapter 4: Urban Resilience and Spatial Dynamics
4.1 Introduction4.2 Spatial Dynamics of Urban Change; 4.2.1 Urban Sprawl; 4.2.2 Polycentric Development; 4.2.3 Shrinkage; 4.2.4 Compactness; 4.3 Spatial Dynamics and Urban Resilience; 4.4 Conclusions; References; Chapter 5: Analysing the Socio-Spatial Vulnerability to Drivers of Globalisation in Lisbon, Oporto, Istanbul, Stockholm and Rotterdam; 5.1 Introduction 1; 5.2 Determinants of Change: Neoliberal Economic Restructuring and Socio-Demographic Transformations in the Case Study Areas; 5.3 Socio-Spatial Vulnerability to the Global Drivers of Change in Case Cities
5.3.1 Increasing Vulnerability of Cities due to the Redistribution of Population and the New Dynamics of Urban Growth5.3.1.1 Portugal: Suburbanisation and Shrinkage due to Change of Regime, Rural Displacement and Immigration; 5.3.1.2 Turkey : Sprawl Driven by Rapid Population Growth and Immigration and Property-Led Intensi fi cation; 5.3.1.3 Sweden : Suburbanisation and Polycentric Development and Intensi fi cation of the Inner City; 5.3.1.4 The Netherlands: Polycentric Development Led by a Concentrated Decentralisation Policy and Intensi fi cation of the Inner City Led by Urban Regeneration
5.3.2 Increasing Vulnerability of Cities due to Increasing Spatial, Social and Economic Inequalities and Socio-Spatial Segregation
There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology. The increased frequency and widening diversity of problems offer evidence that the socio-economic and spatial policies, planning and practices introduced under the neoliberal agenda can no longer be sustained. As this shortfall was becoming more evident among urban policymakers, planners, and researchers in different parts of the world, a group of discontent researchers began searching for new approaches to addressing