Resilience and regions: building understanding of the metaphor

Hurricane Katrina and Al Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks have drawn the attention of many American researchers to comebacks. In the face of natural disasters, cities tend to be resilient: they bounce back to their pre-disaster state, as suggested by Vale and Campanella in their Resilient City. Even faced with long-term challenges or crises, we

• JD
  John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• AS
  Arizona State University