Reveals adaptive urban changes for effective post-disaster recovery, suggesting a new planning framework.
The field of post-disaster recovery has undergone major epistemological shifts in the past century, with disasters being redefined beyond natural phenomena to expose vulnerabilities within institutional and social systems. Despite planning being recognized as essential for building back better, this ideal remains constrained by incoherent and maladaptive post-disaster spatial intervention. Insufficient theoretical and instrumental grounding for recovery planning is a major problem. The idea of urban morphogenesis describes and prescribes adaptive and fundamental urban changes. Recognizing disaster as a morphogenetic agent of change forms the basis for morpho-resilience—a tactical and place-based planning framework for more coherent post-disaster recovery.
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