Post-Disaster Urban Futures: Disruptive Planning, Design and Resilience in Climate Crisis and Conflict

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change is altering the frequency and intensity of potentially risk-generating meteorological phenomena. However, land use models, particularly urbanization models, have only considered the historical recurrence of these phenomena in terms of their periodicity and intensity, based on previous records. Increases in frequency and intensity, as well as hypothetical combinations of factors, introduce an important element of uncertainty to the territory when faced with increasingly improbable events that are not always foreseeable or predictable. Added to a geopolitical reality in which wars continue to devastate territories and cities are once again being targeted, this leads us to question the role of territorial planning and land use in an uncertain environment—a world facing crises, catastrophes, conflicts and climate change in an unprecedented number of possible combinations. In this context, the only constant is uncertainty. However, although we cannot predict the future with precision, this does not prevent us from imagining it in the form of scenarios, and it in no way invalidates urban and territorial planning and design. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to address the urban and territorial processes altered by catastrophes, crises and conflicts, while suggesting new planning and design frameworks that incorporate uncertainty into their conceptualization. This approach treats these combined challenges as an opportunity for planning and design disciplines.

The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) that provide insights into territory, cities, climate change, as well as articles that address the following topics:

1. Territories and cities affected by climate change;
2. Territories and cities affected by catastrophes, wars, conflicts and crises;
3. The intersection of climate change, conflict and crises;
4. The concept of risk in planning;
5. Reframing urban planning in the face of uncertainty;
6. Urban reconstruction;
7. Landscape restoration;
8. Urban regeneration and urban resilience;
9. Post-disaster design;
10. Scenario-based urban futures and simulation.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Inés Aquilué Junyent
Dr. Javier Ruiz Sanchez
Dr. Roger Joan Sauquet Llonch
Dr. Alvaro Ardura Urquiaga
Dr. Hogul Kim
Guest Editors

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• urban resilience
• urban and territorial planning
• post-disaster design
• catastrophes
• urban recovery
• climate change