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F7) URBAN RESILIENCE: A CONCEPTUAL REVIEW by Mohd Yusof bin Zulkefli
ostering resilience in the (Meerow, Newell, & Stults, 2016). it more useful, and the other by the face of environmental, Note that the disaster experienced sceptics who worry that it is simply a socioeconomic, and political by a city is mostly caused by catch-all notion, ill-defined with little
uncertainty and risk has captured the attention of academics and decision-makers across disciplines, sectors, and scales. Resilience has become an important goal for cities, particularly in the face of climate change. Urban areas house the majority of the world’s population which functioning as nodes of resource consumption and sites for innovation, have become burgeoning laboratories for resilience, both in theory and in practice. According to Romero- Lankao et al. (2016), urbanization and urban areas are profoundly altering the relationship between the society and the environment, affecting cities’ sustainability and resilience in complex ways at alarming rates.
the combination and collision of climate change, urbanization, socioeconomic instability, terrorism, natural disaster, cyber- attack, poverty, and endemic outbreak. In summary, ‘urban resilience’ is defined as the capacity of individuals, communities, institutions, businesses, and systems within a city to survive, adapt, and grow no matter what kinds of chronic stresses and acute shocks they experience (UNESCO, 2018).
Resilience has emerged in recent decades as one of the core words in the language that scaffolds our era. Just as others often used yet imprecisely defined notions; sustainability, smart and inclusive being three good examples of resilience is an ever-changing concept that is hard to pin down (Meerow, Newell, & Stults, 2016). However, Martin-Moreau & Menascé (2018) argued that the notion of a resilient city has become particularly difficult to define because it has become so multi- faceted. There are two schools of thought pertaining to this; one by the enthusiasts who feel that the inclusive nature of the notion makes
substance beyond generalities. The sceptics feel that a better definition of resilience is needed, more so for urban resilience in particular. Having said that, does resilience have to be all-encompassing by which a city must be resilient in every way or specifically to resilient infrastructure, resilient to natural disasters and others?
The recent phenomenon shows that Asia experienced 70% of all the disasters in the world and yet there is no definitive indication that this will decline in the future (Jamaludin & Sulaiman, 2018). The crisis suffered by a city has captured the attention of many audiences, thus in order to conquer the issues, the city needs to be resilient in order to confront hence overcome the situation. It is well known that cities are the settlement for humans, places where people gather, a centre of population, cores for commerce, social, productivity, science, culture and economic development. As for Malaysia, there are three major cities, which are Putrajaya, Kuala Lumpur, and Malacca have been selected by the government as role
model cities in
Over the last decades, sustainability and resilience have become key concepts aimed at understanding existing urban dynamics and responding to the challenges of creating liveable urban futures. Sustainability and resilience have also moved and are recently becoming the core analytic and normative concepts for many scholars, transnational networks and urban communities of practice