Beyond Resilience: Are the Cities Ready for Collapses?

The focus of this book has been concentrated on a criticism of thecurrent resilience strategies: how adapting an anachronistic model simply perpetuates its obsolescence, and despite generating temporaryimprovements, it does not offer us in its reformist vision a real solution tothe problems that we will have to face.

The focus of this book has been concentrated on current resilience strategies,a useful concept to understand and act in a complex, global world with signsof imbalances in the urban models that came from the past, but that hasbecome a wildcard easy to use.

The increasing impossibility of encrypting the term resilience, ofapproaching it from more reliable scientific principles, leads us to aconceptual drift that this book echoes. Far from understanding andpreparing for a system change, resilient thinking is presented on manyoccasions as a survival table that facilitates the permanence of the establishedmodel, promoting small strategic modifications to a trust in a system that isincreasingly compromised.