Overview
- Offers a guide to urban resilience from a rigorous academic and real-world perspective
- Gathers salient features of urban resilience into a charter
- Explores the urban resilience through the viewpoint of decision makers and regulatory institutions
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The second part of the book presents mini-essays discussing the strategic points of the paper, and enabling more casual readers with the ability to access information on urban resilience. The book then explores urban resilience through the work and understanding of the institutions responsible for regulating the professions of urban planner, educators, professionals, and those involved in communication.
Providing numerous illustrations and examples, Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter will be of interest to researchers, postgraduates, architects, urban designers and planners alike.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez is an architect, PhD and he is the head of department of urban resilience research at the Institute of Mobility and Urban Territorial Development in Yucatan. He is a lecturer and active researcher in Marista University of Merida, leading the urban and architecture studio at the School of Architecture and Design. He is member of the curatorial team of the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2021. He has more than ten years’ experience as a registered architect and urban designer and a chartered member of the Colegio de Arquitectos de Merida (Mexico). In addition, he was a co-founder of the IMPLAN-Merida (Municipal Institute of Urban Planning in Merida City). His research and professional experience include works in Mexico, Italy, Switzerland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. He focuses on research topics related to informality in the urban landscape, as well as studies on urban resilience and architectural exaptation. Dr. Lara-Hernandez is an active member of LW Circus which is a program focused specifically on experimental modalities in searching new strategies for sustainable urban and rural development on sensitive natural areas and territories. Additionally, he collaborates at the Cluster of Sustainable Cities in the University of Portsmouth (UK) which is an interdisciplinary research hub working at the interface of sustainable architecture, urban planning, social sciences, ICT and engineering. Antonio has published several academic articles focused on the impact of the transformation of the built environment at the streetscape level towards the diversity and inclusion city centres.
Maria R. Perbellini is the Dean of the School of Architecture and Design at the New York Institute of Technology and a tenured Professor of Architecture. Her leadership advances design innovation, intellectual diversity, emerging computational technologies and interdisciplinary programs. She has been notably recognized, including the 2018 AIA Long Island Educator Award. She holds a B.Arch from the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia in Italy and a M.Arch from Pratt Institute in New York. Prior to NYIT, Perbellini was the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Chair of Instruction in the College of Architecture at Texas Tech University. She also taught at the School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin. She is the co-founder of Pongratz Perbellini Architects (PPA). Among others, PPA received the Segnalazione Premio Compasso d’Oro ADI, XXI Edition with the patented series in stone Hyperwave. Before establishing her own practice, she worked in NYC for Peter Eisenman and John Reimnitz on the design of prestigious commissioned buildings and international design competitions. She is an invited member of the Italian Pavilion Advisory Board at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2021, designer and curator of exhibitions, installations and events, and one of the Creative Directors of the Virtual Italian Pavilion. Perbellini is also and invited member of the NYC Architecture Biennial Advisory Board. With Christian Pongratz, Perbellini is the co-editor of the Monograph on Peter Eisenman for Korean Architects-KA (No.156, 08/1997), and the co-author of the books Natural Born CaaDesigners, (Birkhauser, 2000), Cyberstone (Edilstampa, 2009) and Digital Media for Design (Cognella Academic Publishing, 2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter
Book Subtitle: Towards the Possibility of an Italian Charter for Resilient Communities
Editors: Maurizio Carta, Maria R. Perbellini, Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85847-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85846-9Published: 26 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85849-0Published: 27 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85847-6Published: 25 April 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 275
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 79 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cities, Countries, Regions, Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings, Sustainable Development