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Global Responses to Local Conditions Sustainability and Resilience are Nowhere the Same
Author(s) -
Washburn Alexandros
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2256
Subject(s) - resilience (materials science) , luck , environmental planning , sustainability , flood myth , climate change , urban resilience , adaptation (eye) , psychological resilience , community resilience , political science , environmental resource management , environmental ethics , business , urban planning , history , civil engineering , engineering , geography , environmental science , archaeology , computer science , resource (disambiguation) , philosophy , ecology , theology , optics , biology , thermodynamics , physics , psychotherapist , computer network , psychology
To manage the impact of climate change, a mixture of global mitigation (reducing the probability of catastrophes) and local adaptation (lessening their consequences) is needed. Alexandros Washburn – an urban resilience expert and former New York City Chief Architect who witnessed 2012's Hurricane Sandy first hand – presents three contrasting examples of how cities around the world have approached the latter, with varying degrees of success. From ensuring a potable water supply in Sáo Paulo and Singapore to flood prevention in New York, it is a mixed story that embraces everything from an exemplary large‐scale public construction project, to an ingenious community‐led proposal, to sheer luck.