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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Urban Resilience"”.
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Urban resilience through diversity
… and body of knowledge that seeks to address urban sprawl, spatial inequalities, and spatial fragmentation left by the legacy of apartheid planning. I begin my research with the investigation of existing levels of Diversity, and I employ mapping to see the area which reflects more di¬verse …
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Social Equity and Urban Resilience: Investigating the capability of urban resilience theory and planning to address social equity
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Planning the urban forest to enhance urban resilience
… identify extreme heat as a significant threat to urban areas. This is largely due to the impact of heat on human health, their livelihoods, and access to resources (USGCRP, 2018; IPCC, 2014). Both the IPCC (2014) and the USGCRP (2018) identify afforestation as a key strategy for moderating the …
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Essays on Urban Resilience to Environmental and Health Risks
… health threats due to climate change. Building urban resilience requires understanding the complex interplays between environmental and social systems that account for adaptation dynamics. Using new data, computational tools, and economic analysis, this thesis explores how people and places …
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Exploring urban resilience : violence and infrastructure provision in Karachi
The Urban Resilience and Chronic Violence project at MIT extends the scientific concept of resilience to the analysis of chronic conflict. This thesis builds upon the project by testing the usefulness of a socio-spatial capital resilience model for cities confronting persistent violence, which …
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Informal Car Share's Contribution to Urban Resilience in Quito, Ecuador
… a system that aligns with features of resilient urban systems from UN-Habitat. Expanding the current understanding of how ICS operates, as well as its resilience capacity, is the first step to understanding better the value these self-organized systems provide to cities.
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Tracking Disaster Dynamics for Urban Resilience: Human-Mobility and Semantic Perspectives
Fostering urban resilience and creating agility to disaster response is an urgent task faced by cities worldwide in the context of climate change and increasing frequencies of natural disasters. Understanding and tracking the dynamic process of resilience to disasters is the first step to …
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The impact of emerging technologies in supporting urban resilience planning in Canada
… income inequality and political unrest make resilience a priority for every city in the world. Resilience is what will decide whether cities or indeed countries, preserve their quality of life, economic wealth and, in some cases, their political integrity. The aim of this research is to …
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Revisiting Urban Resilience: Exploring the Resilience of Spatial Structure in Refugee Settlements of Jordanian Cities
… of refugees, which presents challenges to the urban infrastructure of host countries. Urban areas in these host countries already face issues related to overpopulation and inadequate infrastructure, and the arrival of refugees seeking a new life further strain these already burdened systems. To …
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The integration of urban system science and physical design: dynamic simulation technologies for urban resilience
One of the major challenges in plan-making for urban resilience is dealing with the deep uncertainty inherent in urban systems. While design/planning solutions are intended to manage or abate a wide array of negative impacts on the built environment, they many times fail to achieve their intended …
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Reflecting on urban resilience based on analyses of al-Zaa’tari Camp for Syrian refugees in al-Mafraq, Jordan
… spaces? This research sheds the light on the urban practices that emerge within refugee camps. In doing so, it recognizes spaces of refuge as urban agglomerations. It also acknowledges the life-producing actions of refugees which challenge equating them as mere objects of humanitarian …
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An Interoperable Framework for Real-Time Infrastructure Monitoring and Deep Learning–Based Post-Disaster Damage Assessment for Urban Resilience
… emergency response, recovery planning, and urban resilience following extreme hazard events. Conventional post-disaster damage assessment relies heavily on manual field surveys, which are slow, labor-intensive, and often infeasible during early response phases due to safety risks and limited …
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Wind-Borne Debris Resistance of Façades: Identification of Alternative Impact Test Requirements
… are now looking for solutions to increase the urban resilience. Among others, extreme winds are endangering the built environment, often leading to the breakage of the primary barrier to protect people and property: the building envelope. On May 22nd, 2011, the Joplin tornado killed 161 people, …
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Metals Distribution in Roadside Soils and Himalayan Blackberries in Victoria, BC, Canada
… remediation, vegetative barriers, and improved urban planning to reduce future contamination. Monitoring metal contamination in urban environments, especially in high-traffic areas, is critical. Further research is needed to assess metal bioavailability and develop sustainable land management …
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Dynamic incentives for pro-social cities : an application to affordable housing
… emphasis on developing sustainable and resilient urban areas with pro-social characteristics. In particular, the issue of housing affordability has attracted the attention of many urban decision-makers, as housing plays an important role in urban resilience and social equity, and the rising …
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Investigating diversity in the function of shelter
Resilience is the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganise while undergoing change so as to retain essentially the same function, structure, identity and feedback. As a concept, resilience is used by various disciplines to analyse ecological, social and social-ecological systems. …
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Flood risks and spatial vulnerabilities: a case study of the University of Venda, South Africa
… the students and staff members. The theory of urban resilience to floods (Liao, 2012) was used to make meaning of the research findings. The temporal scope stretches from 1982, when the University of Venda was established, to 2022, to provide current experiences on flooding: the conceptual …
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Climate ready Boston? : identifying indicators to evaluate the City of Boston's efforts to implement its climate change adaptation initiatives
… vulnerability assessment, and identified several resilience initiatives. To understand whether these initiatives are leading to a less vulnerable, more resilient Boston, I offer a set of indicators the City can use to start monitoring and evaluating its adaptation efforts. To create these …
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The dynamics and resilience of river cities as coupled human-natural systems
… and by providing a theory for alternative urban flood hazard mitigation. This research is composed of three interrelated investigations that are presented as three independent chapters. The first chapter integrates disciplinary knowledge associated with flooding to provide an …
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Upscaling resilience: Waste as a resource
… dissertation explores the intersection between urban resilience, the emerging issue of privatized space in relation to food deserts, food waste and food loss which all make a contribution to food security. The context under investigation provided unique opportunities that allowed for the …
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