ABSTRACT
The aim of the chapter is not only to show that the modern U.K. city in its current form is particularly vulnerable to climatic and resource perturbations, but also that urban postindustrial space, which is currently problematic, holds the key to the future resilience of the city. This space, coined by the author as “the collapsoscape,” is a landscape of collapse and fragmentation, but it is of a scale that meets the needs of the productive city and offers a new landscape that will increase sustainability and urban resilience by hosting new functions for the city that help to close material and energy cycles in an effective way, by improving the metabolism of the city.
