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The Resilient City Of The Future:
Esenler Nar Innovation District

is defined as the system’s capacity to absorb effects, adapt, transform and
reorganize with the shocks (Brand and Jax, 2007; Davoudi, 2012). As a socio-
ecological system, the city should be in mode of constant dynamic change
and adaptation. For this reason, the resilience of cities must be considered as
an adaptable process rather than an absolute equilibrium of a system after a
shock. Engle and Bremond (2013), who study the time scale as an important
parameter of resiliency, approach resilience as a system’s ability to cope in the
short term and to adapt in the long term.

a. Urban Resilience

The concept of resilience has recently been investigated in different
schools and various fields (Coaffee, 2013). The concept of urban resilience,
which is discussed along with the social and physical components of the city:
is discussed under five headings in the literature: a. Ecological, b. in terms of
disaster and risk management, c. social environment, d. institutional and e.
economical challenges. Defined as one of the key principles of sustainable
urban development, “urban resiliency” is the ability of each unit to survive the
stress and shocks they experience, to adapt and to survive the effects of the
stress as soon and as effectively as possible.
Godschalk (2003) defines urban resiliency as a strong, flexible and
sustainable network made up of physical systems and human communities.
Pickett et al (2004) discuss urban resiliency as the binary paradigms of balance
and imbalance within a socio-ecological framework, while Leichenko (2011)
defines it as the capacity of the city to withstand shocks and stress. Meerow et
al (2016), on the other hand, describe urban resiliency as the capacity of the
socio-ecological and socio-technical networks that make up the temporal and
spatial scales of an urban system to maintain the system and/or recover it as
soon as possible.
Cities are affected by socio-economic changes in different degrees. It is
possible to explain these differences through the urban resiliency approach
(Lang, 2010). Urban resilience is composed of four main elements, namely,
metabolic flows, social dynamics, built environment and governance.
Metabolic flows involve the elements that maintain production-consumption
relationships, storage chains, and efficiency. Social dynamics affect the
sociodemographic features. They involve built environments, ecosystem
services, urban landscapes and habitats. The ideology of cities, the policies
applied, transport activities and modes, etc. affect the development of

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