ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a possible way of applying resilience theory to built environments and how it might be measured. It discusses the existing theoretical frameworks used inside and outside ecology to measure resilience. The objective is to map how various institutions are approaching this problem. There is no existing methodology for measuring resilience in the built environment, particularly when it comes to measuring things that matter for designers, like the size or shape of a block or a neighbourhood. The chapter focuses on processes of change. The objective is to find the appropriate scale of analysis for the system. The idea behind this is to arrive at a set of nested systems at different scales, in other words, the Panarchy, and then to look for this in a built environment. The Panarchy is a way to conceptualize systems by assuming that they are hierarchically organized through scales that are interrelated.
