ABSTRACT
This chapter describes research undertaken by the author that explores the resilience of low-income neighborhoods after a large-scale flood. The neighborhoods also have a history of eviction threats. Complex adaptive systems (interdependent systems that adapt and co-evolve with their changing environment) and urban morphology (the study of changes in urban form) are combined to interrogate humanitarian and built environment drivers of urban disaster resilience within three cases, demonstrating that these two urban approaches can be employed to reveal patterns of urban resilience, vulnerability, capacity, risk and opportunity.
