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Today, all cities and citizens come up against a series of natural and/or man-made shocks and stresses such as earthquakes, floods, famine, drought, rapid migration, cyber-attacks, and pandemics due to rapid urbanization, climate change, and political instability. Built and shaped by humankind, cities -in almost every part of the world- ENGLISH SUMMARY have triggered the risk of disasters that we have faced throughout history and that have taken a more dangerous dimension today. Moreover, they have become systems that are directly affected by the same disasters. In this rapidly changing, increasingly complex, and hard to predict global order, people, institutions, societies, and cities are expected to endure, adapt to and manipulate both the emerging changes/transformation and the natural or unnatural disasters. One of the basic principles of sustainable urban development in the framework of global development and goals, the concept of “urban resilience” can be defined as the capacity and ability of individuals, communities, institutions, businesses, and systems in a city to survive, adapt to, and recover from these effects as soon as possible and sustaining minimum damage, no matter what chronic stresses and acute shocks they experience. The future of our societies and cities is directly proportional to how resilient they can be in the event of such situations. It requires urban policies and practices that include multi-layered, multi-dimensional, and holistic approaches. Following this framework, drawing attention to “possible similarities between the efforts and problematic areas faced by humankind during the adventure of creating a ‘resilient living space’ over the course of 600 years, and the search for safe, healthy and sustainable shelter during the current COVID-19 outbreak”, Ali Tolga Özden discusses how approaches to the production of safe buildings and the design of living spaces emerge across natural disasters and specifically to epidemics. Discussing the main points involved in combating the COVID-19 pandemic based on the key indicators of urban resilience, Zeynep Deniz Yaman Galantini emphasizes the importance of a “holistic approach” for achieving urban resilience, depending on the ability to manage change in the urban planning process by elaborating the necessity of urban resilience to be at the intersection of a balanced interplay between spatial and social dynamics and the capacity for governance in the face of unexpected changes. In her article, Ebru Tekin Bilbil criticizes the framing of urban resilience as an alternative to livability while discussing “the state of being unprotected, precarious, unhealthy, dirty, unclean, congested, placeless, and deprived of urban services in the line of life and death in cities that cannot be inhabited.” Deniz Gerçek emphasizes that “the strict, deterministic perspective and rationalist approaches inherited from modernist urban planning theories within the framework of disaster risk management should be replaced by innovative and creative approaches that focus on uncertainty and change”, in a world order where uncertainties increase, and the future is unpredictable. The writer defines the concepts of resilience, urban resilience, and urban spatial resilience separately and explains the relationship these concepts have with different disciplines. In the light of the opinions presented, we can conclude that the COVID-19 pandemic, which has become the inevitable focus of all articles (even though it is not the main topic) is an old yet new aspect in the planning and design of our cities and living spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
