Fragility and Antifragility in Cities and Regions

Space, Uncertainty and Inequality

Francesco Curci, Daniele Chiffi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

2024
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-1254-2 (ISBN)

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Offering a novel and interdisciplinary approach, this thought-provoking book critically analyses the notions of fragility and antifragility and addresses their connections and applications in planning theory, urban studies and architecture. It goes beyond the risk and resilience paradigm and proposes methodological and pragmatic strategies to cope with severe forms of uncertainty and socio-spatial inequalities.

Showcasing expert contributions from leading scholars, this book illustrates how a specific research focus on fragility and antifragility may elucidate some key value-based facets of contemporary cities and regions in order to foster sustainability, innovation and justice. Chapters examine the theoretical and political dimensions of fragility and antifragility, exploring how these two opposing concepts can reimagine traditional rationality in public action and potentially reframe the methods used by architects, urban planners, and policy makers.

Exploring conceptual, methodological and case-based aspects, this incisive book will be of great interest to academics and students within the fields of urban studies, cities and urban geography, architecture, social sciences, philosophy, technology and innovation studies. Its presentation of original accounts of antifragile plans, policies and projects will further benefit policy makers practising within these areas.

Edited by Francesco Curci, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Daniele Chiffi, Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Contents:

Introduction to Fragility and Antifragility in Cities and Regions 1
Francesco Curci and Daniele Chiffi

PART I CONCEPTS AND INTERPRETATIONS OF
FRAGILITY AND ANTIFRAGILITY
1 Disentangling antifragility from resilience 6
Daniele Chiffi and Francesco Curci
2 Forms of rationality facing uncertainty: wisdom’s possible
key role in antifragility 24
Simona Chiodo
3 Antifragility: politics and common knowledge 39
Gabriele Pasqui

PART II MODELS AND PARADIGM SHIFTS IN AN
ANTIFRAGILE PERSPECTIVE
4 Planning for the unseen 57
Alessandro Balducci
5 Urban policy design for antifragility 70
Ivan Blečić and Arnaldo Cecchini
6 Institutional fragility and institutional malleability:
a reflection starting from the Covid-19 pandemic 90
Stefano Moroni
7 Fragility as a condition: the landscape perspective 107
Antonio Longo and Annalisa Metta
8 Antifragile architecture: under what conditions is an
architectural project antifragile? 134
Stefano Guidarini

PART III CASES AND APPLICATIONS
9 Antifragile strategies for abandoned heritage: new
approaches and a dialogue between humanism and technique 149
Annunziata Maria Oteri
10 Territorial variety as an antifragile resource: the Italian case 165
Antonio De Rossi and Arturo Lanzani
11 Italian social policies coping with fragility: the challenge
of continuity in time, space and life pathways 181
Massimo Bricocoli and Stefania Sabatinelli
12 Urban heritage fragility and antifragility: Matera and the
2019 European Capital of Culture 195
Davide Ponzini, Zachary M. Jones, Enrico Tommarchi,
Stefano D’Armento, Alessandro Scandiffio and Franco Bianchini
13 Governing the commons on an Aegean island: the
management of water resources on Sifnos, Greece 210
Amalia Zepou and Manos Matsaganis

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Erscheinungsdatum	06.01.2024
Reihe/Serie	Elgar Studies in Planning Theory, Policy and Practice
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	1-0353-1254-9 / 1035312549
ISBN-13	978-1-0353-1254-2 / 9781035312542
Zustand	Neuware