From engineering to evolutionary, an overarching approach in identifying the resilience of urban design to flood

Abdulkareem, MM; Elkadi, HA

Abstract

Resilient urban design has become an essential theme for cities to withstand the rapidly escalating natural and human-induced disasters, yet cities and their infrastructure are becoming vulnerable and more threatened as the flood protection measures are still following the same line of thinking of flood control structures. There is an urgent need for new approach for resilience steaming from the urban form itself, beyond the focus on construction-based infrastructure like dams, levees and/or channelization.
This paper is presenting an introductory sense of urban form resilience building on the resilience definition of maintaining the minimum functionality of a system and how this conception can systemically corresponds with resilience perspectives. The aim is to develop a measurable sense of urban design resilience. Hence, the paper carried out theoretical investigation into two complementary domains; the urban design and resilience thinking. Finding out the urban form most essential commodity and to which one of resilience perspectives it could possibly associate to achieve resilient urban form. The paper is aiming at establishing a common ground where the two domains can possibly congregate. It also suggests possible effective future approaches using the principles of ecological and evolutionary resilience.

Citation

Abdulkareem, M., & Elkadi, H. (2018). From engineering to evolutionary, an overarching approach in identifying the resilience of urban design to flood. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 28, 176-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.02.009

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Feb 5, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Feb 21, 2018
• Publication Date: Jun 1, 2018
• Deposit Date: Apr 30, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 21, 2019
• Journal: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
• Print ISSN: 2212-4209
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Volume: 28
• Pages: 176-190
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.02.009
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.02.009
• Related Public URLs: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-disaster-risk-reduction
• Additional Information: Projects : School of Built Environment