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Regional Resilience: An Urban Systems Approach

Authors : M. van Aswegen, J. E. Drewes, E. van der Linde

Published in: Urban and Transit Planning

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Abstract

The current thinking of regional resilience is dominated by a nodal approach, i.e. based on resilience being primarily focused on isolated individual cities or regions, therefore, neglecting critical influences of regional urban systems. Although the evolutionary approach (multi- or non-equilibrium conceptualizations) places greater emphasis on regional interactions, the urban system and its linkages are not as prevalent as it could be. The approach presented in this paper is of a spatial nature, referring to a macro-view regarding rural–urban linkages and hierarchical interconnectedness. The paper specifically refers to the emerging South African space-economy with a characteristic dispersed settlement pattern exhibiting a strong dependence on a few primate cities. The paper illustrates that when resilience is approached by means of a targeted bottom-up approach on smaller settlements within the regional urban system, an improved settlement distribution is developed in which a higher buffering capacity is established with respect to economic volatility of the national urban system.

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Metadata
Title
Regional Resilience: An Urban Systems Approach
Authors
M. van Aswegen
J. E. Drewes
E. van der Linde
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Urban and Transit Planning

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-17307-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-17308-1

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17308-1_12

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