ABSTRACT
A growing response to the increasing prevalence of major storm events has been the development of political rhetoric around the need for long-term sustainability and, specifically, resilience in the face of vulnerability. Successful strategies for resilient design should use a diversity of tactics through in situ experimental and ecologically responsive approaches that are safe-to-fail, while avoiding those erroneously assumed to be fail-safe. Before implement applied strategies and associated indicators for resilience in design and planning, it is useful and, arguably, necessary to unpack the history, theory, and conceptual development of resilience as it emerged in ecology. In (re)thinking design, and in (re)designing for change with the sensibility, the readers have to cultivate a culture of resilience and the adaptive, transformative capacity for long-term sustainability—thriving beyond merely surviving—with change in the urbanizing landscapes.
