Learning from Resilience: Cities towards a SelfOrganizing System

The study exploits development of a new field of research with the aim of
reading uncertainty and transformation at cities by revealing resilience
systems thinking theory for urban studies. The paper first generates
understanding the resilience framework and its critical identities. Secondly the
city is introduced as a complex living organicism. Here the complexity of
cities is conducted in the context of a self-organizing organism while conserve
their spatial structure, function and identity. At this juncture; cities and their
built environment are proposed in the framework of ‘being able to absorb
uncertain perturbation and adapt itself through an adaptive cycle; of which
key attributes of resilience is figured out a novel method for urban studies to
be used to detain the taxonomies of uncertainty at identity of built
environment. The study is concluded by impelling resilience as novel frontier
thinking for postulating the ways of assessing a self-organizing city thinking
towards uncertainty of change.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2019), 3(1), 92-103.
https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2018.4686