Urban resilience: Analyzing the policies of U.S. cities.

ABSTRACT: Resilience has become an important concept in urban governance, yet, the policies that cities actually adopt and implement to build resilience remain largely unknown. The lack of empirical studies on resilience policies hinders our ability to develop theory, ask new questions, and test hypotheses. The goal of this paper is to quantify and compare policies and programs of the 101 largest cities in the U.S. that tangibly affect resilience. We develop a set of resilience policies and then search government websites for evidence of adoption of those policies. To explore patterns of policy adoption, we conduct factor analysis and correlation. We find that resilience does not coalesce around any particular sets of programs. Instead, resilience is a flexible concept, modified to address local con

SUBMITTER: Woodruff S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8605798 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature