{"product_id":"fragility-and-antifragility-in-cities-and-regions-9781035312542","title":"Fragility and Antifragility in Cities and Regions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘This is an exciting addition to urban studies that provides scholars with new avenues to “get under the skin” of our chaotic and ever-changing urban environments by viewing these as an intricate relations existing between risk and uncertainty, vulnerability and resilience, and fragility and antifragility. I highly recommend the book to anyone whose work relates to the ‘wicked problems’ facing cities!’\u003c\/i\u003e -- Nancy Holman, London School of Economics, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:  Introduction to Fragility and Antifragility in Cities and Regions 1 Francesco Curci and Daniele Chiffi  PART I CONCEPTS AND INTERPRETATIONS OF FRAGILITY AND ANTIFRAGILITY 1 Disentangling antifragility from resilience 6 Daniele Chiffi and Francesco Curci 2 Forms of rationality facing uncertainty: wisdom’s possible key role in antifragility 24 Simona Chiodo 3 Antifragility: politics and common knowledge 39 Gabriele Pasqui  PART II MODELS AND PARADIGM SHIFTS IN AN ANTIFRAGILE PERSPECTIVE 4 Planning for the unseen 57 Alessandro Balducci 5 Urban policy design for antifragility 70 Ivan Blečić and Arnaldo Cecchini 6 Institutional fragility and institutional malleability: a reflection starting from the Covid-19 pandemic 90 Stefano Moroni 7 Fragility as a condition: the landscape perspective 107 Antonio Longo and Annalisa Metta 8 Antifragile architecture: under what conditions is an architectural project antifragile? 134 Stefano Guidarini  PART III CASES AND APPLICATIONS 9 Antifragile strategies for abandoned heritage: new approaches and a dialogue between humanism and technique 149 Annunziata Maria Oteri 10 Territorial variety as an antifragile resource: the Italian case 165 Antonio De Rossi and Arturo Lanzani 11 Italian social policies coping with fragility: the challenge of continuity in time, space and life pathways 181 Massimo Bricocoli and Stefania Sabatinelli 12 Urban heritage fragility and antifragility: Matera and the 2019 European Capital of Culture 195 Davide Ponzini, Zachary M. Jones, Enrico Tommarchi, Stefano D’Armento, Alessandro Scandiffio and Franco Bianchini 13 Governing the commons on an Aegean island: the management of water resources on Sifnos, Greece 210 Amalia Zepou and Manos Matsaganis  Index","brand":"Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406698160471,"sku":"9781035312542","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781035312542.jpg?v=1730496814","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fragility-and-antifragility-in-cities-and-regions-9781035312542","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}