Trailing solutions for sustainable (sub)urban development based on urban resilience concept

Abstract

Sustainability as one of the "buzz" concepts most often finds a true challenge within urban environment, especially when having in view that by the end of this decade, for the first time in history, more than half of the World's population lives in urban areas. The paper shifts the discourse to the relatively new concept of urban resilience, i.e. introspection into ability of a system (city) to accommodate shocks before it transforms into something fundamentally different. With starting point that no city today could survive on its own resources, the foreseeable ways for urban adaptation and sustainability have been interpreted. The paper draws conclusions by exploring the adaptive capacity as a process of "learning to adapt" vs. "forced adaptation".