Resilience in the Transition Towns Movement. Towards a new Urban Governance

Brunetta, Grazia and Baglione, Valeria (2013) Resilience in the Transition Towns Movement. Towards a new Urban Governance. TeMA Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 6 (2). pp. 251-263. ISSN 1970-9870

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Abstract

Resilience, a concept typical in the natural sciences, has for some years been part of vocabulary of spatial planning but it is as yet relatively unexplored. Its common definition still represents resilience as the capacity of a system to absorb disturbances and to reorganize itself, by returning to the original state. Complexity theory shows that resilience is a bottom-up process, closely related to self-organization of a system, which could change the role of institutions and community in urban governance. Recently, the concept of resilience has been associated with the Transition Towns movement, a bottom-up initiative promoted by civil society. Better known as “urban initiatives for the transition”, they are a set of bottom-up practices of urban management, aimed at achieving a self-sufficient and “zero impact” model of urban development. In this perspective, the research question is: could this new paradigm of development and spatial organization really be a new approach in urban governance? The paper focuses on the implications of the concept of resilience in spatial planning. The purpose is to understand the extent of innovation in planning practices and urban governance. In particular, the first part of the paper provides a review of the theoretical framework of resilience and the second analyzes the Transition Towns movement, with particular reference to the role of stakeholders.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Resilience, transition town movement, urban governance
Subjects:	700 Arti, Belle arti e Arti decorative > 710 Urbanistica e paesistica > 711 Urbanistica (Pianificazione territoriale) (Classificare le opere d'insieme su Urbanistica e Architettura in 720; classificare le opere interdisciplinari sull'Urbanistica in 307.12) > 711.2 Pianificazione a livello internazionale e nazionale
Depositing User:	Rosa Anna La Rocca
Date Deposited:	12 Sep 2013 12:17
Last Modified:	12 Sep 2013 12:17
URI:	http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/6746

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