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The paper provides an explanation for how increased public participation can paradoxically translate into limited democratic decision-making in urban settings. Using an in-depth case study of one of the largest coastal protection projects in the world, the East Side Coastal Resilience (ESCR) Project, and drawing on global scholarship on participation, this article narrates the social …

Democracy underwater: public participation, technical, expertise, and climate infrastructure planning in New YorkCity Read More »

Our era of ecological resilience and ecocide requires much more holistic and inclusive thinking about social, civic space. Kate Orff outlines the proposal for Alameda Creek, which removes the defensive infrastructures currently restraining the natural forces of the San Francisco Bay Area with the aim of reconnecting its urban and rural ecologies.

This paper analyses the complexity of policy transfer processes in the context of contemporary policy making in responseto climate change. The paper further examines what constitutes a successful policy transfer process by using Semarang, a tropical city located inIndonesia, as a case study.

this paper presents an analytical framework to study institutional capacity building by international resilience programs, focusing on intellectual, social and political capital. The central case is the development and implementation of the Water as Leverage (WaL) program in Semarang, Indonesia.

This article presents and demonstrates an analytic framework that enables a systematic visual analysis of landscape design representations. The framework is demonstrated our framework by using two projects from Rebuild by Design, a participatory transdisciplinary design competition organized in the New York City area as examples.

The paper focuses on how the concept of ‘resilience districts’ for urban areas vulnerable to coastal flooding can improve resilience of metropolitan areas. The paper details a resilience districting strategy for the Greater Boston Metropolitan Area. It culminates with a generalizable urban planning and design framework for protecting critical infrastructure, ‘thickening’ regional soft systems and …

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This paper using Foucaultian work on problematization explores the urban resilience paradigm which emerged in the wake of 2012’s Hurricane Sandy, which dramatically disrupted New York City. The paper used discourse and media analysis to examine government commissions and proposals, and site observation at panels and conferences. It highlights the inherent political nature in the …

Urban resilience as critique: Problematizing infrastructure in post-Sandy New York City Read More »

Using Board Games to stimulate spatial planning discussions