Building a resilient city

Radio Lab

The concept of a resilient city is defined as the ability of an urban system to absorb a disturbance and recover its functions as a result of this disturbance. But beyond the technological aspects, building material resistance, resilience is an interesting prospect for questioning urban services, relations between rulers and citizens and more broadly the resources brought by the city. The participation of citizens in the (re) construction of this city is then essential as well as developing a more horizontal mode of governance, a greater involvement of the civil society. In a context of withdrawal, erection of walls and privatization of the public space, some actors and participative initiatives contribute to the resubjectivation of the inhabitants, to the social opening up and thus affirm the necessity to make common and to create alternative horizons in the breaches of the planned city. With Lala Panait, István Szakáts, Marko Aksentijevic and Bianca Felseghi