Urban resilience concept and post-industrial cities in Europe - ebook

University of Economics in Katowice

Urban resilience concept and post-industrial cities in Europe
Ed. by Adam Drobniak

Katowice, 2014

Introduction (7)

PART I. THEORY AND METHODOLOGY

Chapter I. Urban resilience and post-industrial city - Adam Drobniak (15)

• 1. Resilience, urban resilience, urban economic resilience (15)
• 2. Urban economic resilience - research approaches (18)
• 3. Urban resilience - research perspectives and the adaptive cycle model (20)
• 4. Shocks, disruptions and types of cities within the resilience concept (22)
• 5. Urban resilience and post-industrial city transition (24)

Chapter II. Factors determining a city's development dynamics - Adam Drobniak (29)

• 1. External factors in the context of challenges for post-industrial cities (29)
  • 1.1. Challenges and external factors in the functional approach (30)
  • 1.2. Challenges and external factors in the horizontal approach (33)
• 2. Internal factors determining resilience and vulnerability in the context of urban structures (35)
  • 2.1. Factors in urban economic-technological structures (35)
  • 2.2. Factors in urban socio-cultural structures (37)
  • 2.3. Factors in urban environmental-spatial structures (39)
  • 2.4. Factors in urban institutional-political structures (41)
• 3. Interactions between a city's resilience and vulnerability factors and external factors (43)

Chapter III. Method for assessing the resilience of a city - Adam Drobniak (49)

• 1. General method assumptions - the city as a complex system (49)
• 2. Procedure for assessing the resilience of a city (51)
  • 2.1. Stage I. External factors determining a city development dynamics (51)
  • 2.2. Stage II. Identifying the factors of a city's resilience and vulnerability according to general attributes of resilience (52)
  • 2.3. Stage III. Dynamics of city structures in economic-technological, socio-cultural, environmental-spatial and institutional-political dimensions (59)
  • 2.4. Stage IV. Linkages among a city's structures dynamics (70)
  • 2.5. Stage V. Interactions among internal factors of city resilience and vulnerability, and external factors determining its development dynamics (70)
  • 2.6. Stage VI. Assessment of a city's resilience degree along with resilience trajectories (72)
  • 2.7. Stage VII. Recommendations - principles of creating a resilient city (75)
• 3. Further remarks for the method application (75)
  • Annex. Using the AHP method to define weights (79)

PART II. CASE STUDIES - ASSESSING RESILIENCE IN THE SELECTED EUROPEAN POST-INDUSTRIAL CITIES

Chapter IV. The resilience of Katowice and Bytom, Poland (83)

• 1. Resilience in economic-technological structures of Katowice and Bytom - Marcin Baron (83)
  • 1.1. Methodological and theoretical remarks (83)
  • 1.2. External factors determining the development dynamics of Katowice and Bytom (84)
  • 1.3. Factors of Katowice and Bytom resilience and vulnerability according to the general attributes of resilience (91)
  • 1.4. Dynamics of Katowice and Bytom structures in the economic-technological dimension (92)
  • 1.5. Assessment of the degree of resilience for Katowice and Bytom along with their resilience trajectories (99)
  • 1.6. Recommendations for Katowice and Bytom in strengthening resilience within economic-technological structures (100)
• 2. Resilience in the socio-cultural structures of Katowice and Bytom - Małgorzata Czornik, Małgorzata Twardzik (103)
  • 2.1. Methodological and theoretical remarks (103)
  • 2.2. External factors determining the development dynamics of Katowice and Bytom (104)
  • 2.3. Factors of Katowice and Bytom resilience and vulnerability according to the general attributes of resilience (107)
  • 2.4. Dynamics of Katowice and Bytom structures in the socio-cultural dimension (110)
  • 2.5. Assessment of the resilience degree of Katowice and Bytom, along with resilience trajectories (120)
  • 2.6. Recommendations for Katowice and Bytom in strengthening resilience within socio-cultural structures (121)
  • Annex. Values of indexes of resilience and vulnerability for Bytom and Katowice - socio-cultural dimension (124)
• 3. Resilience in the environmental-spatial structures of Katowice and Bytom - Piotr Gibas, Adam Polko (126)
  • 3.1. Methodological and theoretical remarks (126)
  • 3.2. External factors determining development dynamics of Katowice and Bytom (126)
  • 3.3. Factors of Katowice and Bytom resilience and vulnerability according to the general attributes of resilience (128)
  • 3.4. Dynamics of Katowice and Bytom structures in the environmental-spatial dimension (131)
  • 3.5. Assessment of the degree of Katowice and Bytom along with their resilience trajectories (136)
  • 3.6. Recommendations for Katowice and Bytom in strengthening resilience within environmental-spatial structures (138)
  • Annex 1. Values of combined indexes of resilience and vulnerability for Bytom and Katowice - environmental-spatial dimension (140)
  • Annex 2. Values of combined indexes of resilience and vulnerability for Bytom and Katowice - weighted approach - environmental-spatial dimension (142)
• 4. The Resilience in the institutional-political structures of Katowice and Bytom - Adam Drobniak, Lucjan Goczoł, Mateusz Skowroński (143)
  • 4.1. Methodological and theoretical remarks (143)
  • 4.2. External factors determining the development dynamics of Katowice and Bytom (143)
  • 4.3. Factors of Katowice and Bytom resilience and vulnerability according to general attributes of resilience (146)
  • 4.4. Dynamics of Katowice and Bytom structures in the institutional-political dimension (154)
  • 4.5. Assessment of Katowice's and Bytom's resilience degree along with their resilience trajectories (159)
  • 4.6. Recommendations for Katowice and Bytom in strengthening resilience within institutional-political structures (160)
  • Annex. Values of indexes of resilience and vulnerability for Bytom and Katowice - institutional-political dimension (164)
• 5. Linkages and interaction among development dynamics in Katowice and Bytom - Adam Drobniak, Lucjan Goczoł, Mateusz Skowroński (166)
  • 5.1. Linkages among urban structures dynamics in Bytom and Katowice (166)
  • 5.2. Interactions among internal factors of Bytom and Katowice resilience and vulnerability, and external factors determining their development (168)

Chapter V. The resilience of Ostrava and Karviná, Czech Republic - Jan Sucháček (175)

• 1. Methodological and theoretical remarks and some general characteristics of Ostrava and Karviná (175)
• 2. Important challenges and external factors determining development dynamics of Ostrava and Karviná (176)
• 3. Factors of Ostrava and Karviná resilience and vulnerability according to the general attributes of resilience (178)
• 4. Dynamics of Ostrava and Karviná structures in economic-technological, socio-cultural, environmental-spatial, institutional-political dimension (189)
• 5. Linkages among urban structures dynamics in Ostrava and Karviná (203)
• 6. Interactions among internal factors of Ostrava and Karviná resilience and vulnerability, and external factors determining their development (205)
• 7. Assessment of Ostrava and Karviná resilience degree along with their resilience trajectories (208)
• 8. Recommendations for Ostrava and Karviná in strengthening resilience (212)
  • Annex. Values of Ostrava's and Karviná's resilience and vulnerability indexes (214)

Chapter VI. The resilience of Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen, Germany - Rüdiger Wink (221)

• 1. Introduction remarks (221)
• 2. External factors determining development dynamics of Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen (223)
• 3. Factors of Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen resilience and vulnerability according to the general attributes of resilience (233)
• 4. Dynamics of Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen structures in economic-technological, socio-cultural, environmental-spatial, institutional-political dimension (241)
• 5. Linkages, interactions among urban structures dynamics in Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen and external factors determining their development (246)
• 6. Assessment of Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen resilience along with recommendations attempts for strengthening their resilience (247)
  • Annex. Statistical data for Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen (252)

Chapter VII. The resilience of Glasgow and Newcastle, United Kingdom - Martin Ferry (255)

• 1. Introduction remarks (255)
• 2. Challenges and external factors determining development dynamics of Glasgow and Newcastle (257)
• 3. Factors enhancing resilience of Glasgow and Newcastle according to the general attributes of resilience along with their dynamics (263)
  • 3.1. Economic-technological structures (263)
  • 3.2. Socio-cultural structures (276)
  • 3.3. Environmental-spatial structures (284)
  • 3.4. Institutional-spatial structures (289)
• 4. Linkages and interactions among urban structures dynamics in Glasgow (294)
• 5. Assessment of Glasgow resilience degree along with their resilience trajectories (295)
• 6. Recommendations for Glasgow and Newcastle in strengthening resilience within economic-technological structures (296)

Conclusions to applying the resilience concept in post-industrial cities and the assessment method (299)

Information about the authors (303)

List of figures (305)

List of tables (309)