A sixfold urban design framework to assess climate resilience: Generative transformation in Negril, Jamaica.

ABSTRACT: The uncertainty of climate change's impacts hinders adaptation actions, particularly micro-scale urban design interventions. This paper proposes a sixfold urban design framework to assess and enhance the resilience of urban form to climate change, where urban form refers to the patterns of streets, buildings, and land uses. The framework is then applied to Long Bay in Negril, Jamaica-a coastal area that incorporates the complex interactions between urbanization and a highly vulnerable socio-ecological system to climate change-related hazards, primarily sea-level rise. Empirical evidence from 19 in-depth interviews with planning and design professionals and development actors, in situ observations, and morphological analyses reveal that Long Bay's current adaptation strategies heavily rely

SUBMITTER: Dhar TK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10289356 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature