Resilience by Design - Lee, Alexandra Jayeun; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016)
Part I. Understanding Resilience -- 1. Design Agency -- Architecture and Disasters -- Dilemmas of Disaster Urbanism -- Bridging the Gap -- 2. Systems Thinking -- Design as a Method -- Operationalizing Wicked Problems -- 3. Paradoxes of Building Back Better -- Communicating Resilience -- Societal Pathologies -- Design Strategies -- Part II. Resilient Tactics and Strategies -- 4. Haiti: NGO's Republic -- Setting the Scene: Wicked Problems -- Civic Resilience: the Haitian Way -- Social Equity: Haitian Diaspora -- Design Outlier: Bati Byen -- 5. Katrina: Collective Resistance -- Starchitecture and Community Design -- Politics of Unbuilding -- Design Equity -- Public Interest Design as Activism -- 6. Christchurch: Going Grassroots -- The Polarized City -- Emergent Community Leaders -- A People's Republic of Christchurch -- Architecture of Tomorrow -- Conclusion -- Index -- List of Interviewees.
Keywords: Urban geography; Regional economics; Spatial economics; Human geography; Natural disasters; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Regional/Spatial Science; Human Geography; Natural Hazards