Post Un-Lock. From Territorial Vulnerabilities to Local Resilience

This open access book builds a framework that holds together numerous open issues in territorial planning: from the understanding of territorial, landscape, environmental and climatic dynamics to the analysis of local vulnerabilities, to the use of modern survey techniques to support planning. What is the role of urban and regional planning in achieving the sustainable development goals of our communities considering the major issues posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in urban planning?

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Territorial Resilience: Toward a Proactive Meaning for Spatial Planning

The international debate on resilience has grown around the ability of a community to prepare for and adapt to natural disasters, with a growing interest in holistically understanding complex systems. Although the concept of resilience has been investigated from different perspectives, the lack of understanding of its conceptual comprehensive aspects presents strong limitations for spatial planning and for the adoption of policies and programs for its measurement and achievement.

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Towards a Definition of Landscape Resilience: The Proactive Role of Communities in Reinforcing the Intrinsic Resilience of Landscapes

The resilience approach seems to be related to the understanding of the concept of strong sustainability (Neumayer, 2003; Voghera & Giudice, 2019), which requires flexibility, integration, and empowerment. Resilience can be a useful lens to interpret the transformative action of territory and landscape, seeking a balance through projects still linked to the landscape in a generic way.

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La co-gouvernance pour des paysages partagés et communs

Ce texte aborde la thématique cruciale du paysage, conçu comme un laboratoire pour l’expérimentation et l’élaboration d’actions basées sur la collaboration pour la construction de scenarios partagés. Le texte part du constat que souvent le terme de paysage peut être associé à celui de bien commun et il envisage de proposer une réflexion sur l’efficacité des plans paysagers et sur leur transposition à l’échelle locale.

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Co-evolutionary, transformative, and economic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Evidence-based experiences of urban community design in Turin (Italy)

This article seeks to interpret co-evolutionary and transformative resilience in a broad sense, with the aim of understanding how it may come into the practices of urban planning and project-making, innovating project procedures, and generating economic effects.

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