ABSTRACT
Discussions of urban resilience have expanded in light of the negative impacts of extreme climate events that will greatly affect the poverty-stricken areas of the world’s least wealthy countries. In this context, it is particularly worrying that more than half of the world’s population is in urban areas and often concentrated in coastal zones. Facing the challenges that this context presents, the “Urban Occupation Project for Resilience in Flooded Areas in Vargens Region”, discussed herein, focuses on an extremely vulnerable coastal area of Rio de Janeiro and proposes unconventional alternatives of urban land use and occupation that reduce the risk and vulnerability of coastal urban areas subject to flooding, with solutions ranging from the scale of buildings to the scale of cities.
