What determines urban resilience against COVID-19: City size or governance capacity?

This paper measures the spatial evolution of urban agglomerations to understand be er the impact of high-speed rail (HSR) construction, based on panel data from fi ve major urban agglomerations in China for the period 2004–2015. It is found that there are signi ficant regional diff erences of HSR impacts. The construction of HSR has promoted population and economic diff usion in two advanced urban agglomerations, namely the Yang e River Delta and Pearl River Delta, while promoting population and economic concentration in two relatively less advanced urban agglomerations, e.g. the middle reaches of the Yang e River and Chengdu–Chongqing. In terms of city size, HSR promotes the economic proliferation of large cities and the economic concentration of small and medium-sized cities along its routes. HSR networking has provided a new impetus for restructuring urban spatial systems. Every region should optimize the industrial division with strategic functions of urban agglomeration according to local conditions and accelerate the construction of inter-city intra-regional transport network to maximize the eff ects of high-speed rail across a large regional territory.

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Urban resilience and distributive justice

Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure ◽

10.1080/23789689.2019.1607658 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 103-111 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michael Nagenborg

Keyword(s):

Distributive Justice ◽

Urban Resilience

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Influencing factors and their influencing mechanisms on urban resilience in China

Sustainable Cities and Society ◽

10.1016/j.scs.2021.103210 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 103210

Author(s):

Dezhi Li ◽

Guanying Huang ◽

Dezhi Li ◽

Xiongwei Zhu ◽

Jin Zhu

Keyword(s):

Influencing Factors ◽

Urban Resilience

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Landscape Design toward Urban Resilience: Bridging Science and Physical Design Coupling Sociohydrological Modeling and Design Process

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13094666 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (9) ◽

pp. 4666

Author(s):

Yoonshin Kwak ◽

Brian Deal ◽

Grant Mosey

Keyword(s):

Pilot Study ◽

Landscape Design ◽

Urban Systems ◽

Urban Resilience ◽

Planning Support Systems ◽

Creative Solutions ◽

Resilient Communities ◽

Study Support ◽

Key Variables ◽

Resilient Design

Given that evolving urban systems require ever more sophisticated and creative solutions to deal with uncertainty, designing for resilience in contemporary landscape architecture represents a cross-disciplinary endeavor. While there is a breadth of research on landscape resilience within the academy, the findings of this research are seldom making their way into physical practice. There are existent gaps between the objective, scientific method of scientists and the more intuitive qualitative language of designers and practitioners. The purpose of this paper is to help bridge these gaps and ultimately support an endemic process for more resilient landscape design creation. This paper proposes a framework that integrates analytic research (i.e., modeling and examination) and design creation (i.e., place-making) using processes that incorporate feedback to help adaptively achieve resilient design solutions. Concepts of Geodesign and Planning Support Systems (PSSs) are adapted as part of the framework to emphasize the importance of modeling, assessment, and quantification as part of processes for generating information useful to designers. This paper tests the suggested framework by conducting a pilot study using a coupled sociohydrological model. The relationships between runoff and associated design factors are examined. Questions on how analytic outcomes can be translated into information for landscape design are addressed along with some ideas on how key variables in the model can be translated into useful design information. The framework and pilot study support the notion that the creation of resilient communities would be greatly enhanced by having a navigable bridge between science and practice.

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Revealing the Challenges of Smart Rainwater Harvesting for Integrated and Digital Resilience of Urban Water Infrastructure

Water ◽

10.3390/w13141902 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (14) ◽

pp. 1902

Author(s):

Martin Oberascher ◽

Aun Dastgir ◽

Jiada Li ◽

Sina Hesarkazzazi ◽

Mohsen Hajibabaei ◽

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Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Rainwater Harvesting ◽

Data Communication ◽

Integrated System ◽

Coupled Systems ◽

Urban Resilience ◽

System Failures ◽

Household Level ◽

Performance Improvements ◽

Smart Water

Smart rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems can automatically release stormwater prior to rainfall events to increase detention capacity on a household level. However, impacts and benefits of a widespread implementation of these systems are often unknown. This works aims to investigate the effect of a large-scale implementation of smart RWH systems on urban resilience by hypothetically retrofitting an Alpine municipality with smart rain barrels. Smart RWH systems represent dynamic systems, and therefore, the interaction between the coupled systems RWH units, an urban drainage network (UDN) and digital infrastructure is critical for evaluating resilience against system failures. In particular, digital parameters (e.g., accuracy of weather forecasts, or reliability of data communication) can differ from an ideal performance. Therefore, different digital parameters are varied to determine the range of uncertainties associated with smart RWH systems. As the results demonstrate, smart RWH systems can further increase integrated system resilience but require a coordinated integration into the overall system. Additionally, sufficient consideration of digital uncertainties is of great importance for smart water systems, as uncertainties can reduce/eliminate gained performance improvements. Moreover, a long-term simulation should be applied to investigate resilience with digital applications to reduce dependence on boundary conditions and rainfall patterns.

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