Resilience by Design (Paperback)

Part I. Understanding Resilience.- 1. Design Agency.- Architecture and Disasters.- Dilemmas of Disaster Urbanism.- Bridging the Gap.- 2. Systems Thinking.- Design as a Method.- Operationalizing Wicked Problems.- 3. Paradoxes of Building Back Better.- Communicating Resilience.- Societal Pathologies.- Design Strategies.- Part II. Resilient Tactics and Strategies.- 4. Haiti: NGO's Republic.- Setting the Scene: Wicked Problems.- Civic Resilience: the Haitian Way.- Social Equity: Haitian Diaspora.- Design Outlier: Bati Byen.- 5. Katrina: Collective Resistance.- Starchitecture and Community Design.- Politics of Unbuilding.- Design Equity.- Public Interest Design as Activism.- 6. Christchurch: Going Grassroots.- The Polarized City.- Emergent Community Leaders.- A People's Republic of Christchurch.- Architecture of Tomorrow.- Conclusion.- Index.- List of Interviewees.