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Sustained resilience serves as a unifying property that integrates resilience and sustainability to capture the long-term cumulative and adaptive capacity of cities and the built environment. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.ESTABLISHES_NEW_DIRECTION.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To introduce sustained resilience as a unified conceptual framework connecting short-term event recovery with long-term sustainability across the lifecycles of built environments.

August 27, 2026npj Urban SustainabilityOpen Access

Sustained resilience as a unifying property of cities and the built environment

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To introduce sustained resilience as a unified conceptual framework connecting short-term event recovery with long-term sustainability across the lifecycles of built environments.
Conceptual integration of resilience theory, lifecycle dynamics, and sustainability models in urban systems.
Defines sustained resilience as an overarching property that captures the cumulative, adaptive capacity of urban infrastructure.
Establishes a framework for cities to maintain function, assimilate lessons from systemic disruption, and evolve through recurring cycles of change.

Implication

Theoretical analysis demonstrates the integration of resilience and sustainability in cities, highlighting adaptive capacity across lifecycles.

Abstract

The built environment evolves, deteriorates and regenerates over time, yet resilience is commonly reduced to discrete event-based recovery while long-term performance is treated through sustainability. This separation obscures how resilience unfolds across lifecycles. We introduce sustained resilience as a unifying property that integrates resilience and sustainability, capturing the cumulative and adaptive capacity of the built environment and cities to maintain function, learn from disruption and evolve through successive cycles of change.

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Mitoulis et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8fe9c910c91c1e92621ad7 https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-026-00457-3

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Theoretical analysis demonstrates the integration of resilience and sustainability in cities, highlighting adaptive capacity across lifecycles.

Sustained resilience as a unifying property of cities and the built environment

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Sustained resilience as a unifying property of cities and the built environment

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