Urban Resilience can be described as the ability and capacity of cities, or social ecological systems, to adapt to slow change, abrupt crises and evolving worldviews or social regimes, in order to sustain human life.
As a predominantly urban species, our survival is greatly dependent on the survival of cities as an environment honed for sustaining human life. If we perceive cities to be a hybrid environment of manipulated natural landscapes and constructed structures with service systems that fulfill human needs, then urban resilience is a selfish aim…to continue to nurture the conditions that are suited to human life. If urban resilience is to be promoted, then we have to consider at what cost this will be achieved with regard to the planet and ourselves.
The goal has to be clear. Our vision therefore is to create resilient and regenerative urban systems that are ethically driven and will lead to an abundant and thriving future.