What is the value of urban resilience?
Publication Type
Report
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
7-2025
Abstract
Urban resilience is often presented as a technical response to uncertainty. But there is so much more at stake. Resilience is a political, social, and economic platform through which societies decide what they value, whose interests they prioritise, and what futures they seek to create. This makes resilience a powerful tool for shaping future imaginaries, aligning actors across shared priorities, and providing an organising principle through which cities can better negotiate uncertainty. But at the same time the question remains: how is resilience being deployed and whose interests is it really serving?
Keywords
Urban studies, urban sustainability, urban resilience
Discipline
Urban Studies | Urban Studies and Planning
Research Areas
Integrative Research Areas
First Page
1
Last Page
20
Publisher
Singapore Management University
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
WOODS, Orlando.
What is the value of urban resilience?. (2025). 1-20.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/640
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