Planning for Climate Proof Cities

International commitments to design resilient and adaptive cities, as consequence of the Global Climate Change, can represent the most relevant issue (both political and scientific) of the twenty-first century, requiring an explicit revision of the processes of planning and managing cities. 

It appears evident that urban contexts are mostly artificial, therefore characterized by low resilience, so their adaptation capacity is related to a punctual action that should be supported with the definition of a “new culture” of spatial planning and urban design specifically oriented to resilience. 

The series will contribute to an international and oriented debate on the role of cities and territories to counteract climate change, also in connection with metabolism improvement, resilience enforcing, risk reduction due to extreme climate local events. 

The series will investigate the definition of a “new toolkit” for urban scholars, policy makers and city/urban planners finalized to include and support adaptive and resilient approach in planning, based on recent international researches and practices promoted by universities, cities and public bodies in Europe, US and in the rest of the world.

The series will be strongly interdisciplinary, connecting disciplines that can contribute to design and plan “climate proof cities” of the next decades.