(Ebook) Learning from Resilience: Cities towards a SelfOrganizing System by Ph.D. Candidate CEMALIYE EKEN

(Ebook) Learning from Resilience: Cities towards a SelfOrganizing System by Ph.D. Candidate CEMALIYE EKEN

The study exploits development of a new field of research with the aim ofreading uncertainty and transformation at cities by revealing resiliencesystems thinking theory for urban studies. The paper first generatesunderstanding the resilience framework and its critical identities. Secondly thecity is introduced as a complex living organicism. Here the complexity ofcities is conducted in the context of a self-organizing organism while conservetheir spatial structure, function and identity. At this juncture; cities and theirbuilt environment are proposed in the framework of ‘being able to absorbuncertain perturbation and adapt itself through an adaptive cycle; of whichkey attributes of resilience is figured out a novel method for urban studies tobe used to detain the taxonomies of uncertainty at identity of builtenvironment. The study is concluded by impelling resilience as novel frontierthinking for postulating the ways of assessing a self-organizing city thinkingtowards uncertainty of change.JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2019), 3(1), 92-103.https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2018.4686