ABSTRACT
The first part of this chapter is dedicated to contrasting the insights from the analysis of Barcelona, San Francisco, and Santiago’s experience in resilience. The political economy of urban resilience across the three sites is discussed. The chapter addresses the different facets of urban resilience based on its application and relevance - what resilience is and is not and what its conceptual and practical limitations are. It questions the usefulness of resilience as an all-fitting, neutral policy concept, in addition to highlighting its political effects. It interrogates the role of resilience in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, and elaborates on promising avenues of future research of the urban condition.
