Shocks, recovery processes and cultivating urban plasticity: a neuroplasticity-informed perspective on urban resilience

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Abstract

By drawing together two previously disparate literatures – urban resilience and neuroplasticity – a new integrated urban plasticity approach is outlined. Urban plasticity is a fresh perspective through which to ask questions about the city and also, importantly, the people, places and people-place connections that form a city’s identity and which contribute to urban recovery capabilities. Instead of presenting a ‘correct’ approach to recovery, the chapter suggests that attending to the qualities of a particular context is conducive to developing a richer improvisational ability to guide systems of people and structures through crises and subsequent recoveries.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPandemic Recovery?
Subtitle of host publicationReframing and Rescaling Societal Challenges
EditorsLauren Andres, John R. Bryson, Aksel Ersoy, Louise Reardon
PublisherEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Chapter2
Pages27-41
Number of pages14
Edition1
ISBN (Electronic)9781802201116
ISBN (Print)9781802201109
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Jan 2024

Keywords

  • Urban Resilience
  • Neuroplasticity
  • Urban Plasticity
  • Recovery
  • Neurological recovery
  • COVID-19

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Social Sciences
  • General Medicine
  • General Economics,Econometrics and Finance
  • General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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