Resilience, not resistance A contribution to an expanded urban conversation

Autor:	Sophie Churchill
Rok vydání:	2003
Předmět:	Pride business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Corporate governance Geography Planning and Development Acknowledgement Resistance (psychoanalysis) Public relations Urban Studies Negotiation General partnership Conversation Sociology Social science business Resilience (network) media_common
Zdroj:	City. 7:349-360
ISSN:	1470-3629 1360-4813
DOI:	10.1080/1360481032000157504
Popis:	Here, Sophie Churchill explores the contribution of a complementary psychodynamic language, offered by Leonie Sandercock, as a means to ‘engage an alternative urban conversation’ – through for example how we may dream our cities through stories and emotions. The need for this alternative conversation comes from the author's acknowledgement of the inadequacy of most current governance and planning arrangements in taking into account the wider needs of citizens. She also draws our attention to the limitations of resistance identities which foster conflict and confrontation. Using the example of the Birmingham in the UK (see also Frank Webster in Issue 5:1 of CITY) where the author has worked for a partnership organisation called ‘City Pride’, the notion of ‘resilience’ is developed as a key capacity to be built alongside more standard policy measures. Resilience here is the capacity to negotiate stress and trauma and recover from unforeseen disturbances. While Churchill stresses that resilience can equip ci...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
Externí odkaz:	https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::2bc7a32c895a77792e38a42ce81812c0 https://doi.org/10.1080/1360481032000157504 Zobrazit plný text záznamu