ABSTRACT
Many different disciplines can contribute to a theoretical understanding of the nature of resilience in general and urban resilience in particular. Some writers stretch the list of urban disasters appropriate for resilient city planning and policies to include oil price shocks, economic crises, and terrorist attacks. Resilience is a desirable property at different scales of economies, computer networks, and the human psyche as well as useful for buildings, neighborhoods, cities, and regions. When one attempts to link the concept of resilience to socio-environmental systems such as cities, one gets into the realm of planning and urbanism in some distinct ways. Adopting a progressive view of urban resilience has implications for the practice of planners and designers. Resilience takes place across a highly differentiated landscape of risk, and is intimately tied up with deeply political choices that are being made by public and private leaders about how to manage such places.
