Design for Disruption: Creating Anti-Fragile Urban Delta Landscapes

Rob Roggema
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Rob Roggema: Office for Adaptive Planning and Design, Cittaideale, The Netherlands / Knowledge Centre NoorderRuimte, Hanze University Groningen, The Netherlands

Urban Planning, 2019, vol. 4, issue 1, 113-122

Abstract: In this article three different responses are taken as the starting point how different types of disruption could be dealt with. These responses—repair, bounce back and grow stronger—are combined with three disruptions (sea level rise, storm surge and heavy rainfall), and then tested in three case studies. The result of the investigation is that anti-fragility (grow stronger) is a preferential approach to create delta landscapes that become stronger under influence of a disruption. Anti-fragility is for this research subdivided in three main characteristics, abundance of networks, adaptivity and counterintuitivity, which are used to analyse the three case study propositions. The type of response, type of disruption, characteristic of anti-fragility and the qualities of the case study area itself determine the design proposition and the outcome. In all cases this approach has led to a stronger and safer landscape. The concept of anti-fragility impacts on the period before a disruption, during and also after the disruptive impact. This gives it a better point of departure in dealing with uncertain or unprecedented hazards and disruptions.

Keywords: anti-fragility; delta landscape; disruption; intervention; coast; resilience (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.17645/up.v4i1.1469

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