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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | Pandemic Recovery? |
Subtitle of host publication | Reframing and Rescaling Societal Challenges |
Editors | Lauren Andres, John R. Bryson, Aksel Ersoy, Louise Reardon |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. |
Chapter | 2 |
Pages | 27-41 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781802201116 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781802201109 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 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