Interdisciplinary Bibliography Of Urban Resilience

Concerns about resilience in the urban context cross different fields. Cities and urban spaces are complex systems that comprise social, environmental and economic spheres. The urban resilience is defined as the capacity of a city to survive and achieve the same level of performance after an external or disturbing event. The urban resilience is composed by the governance, management and technological solutions that allows cities to be resilient. For that, the objective of this paper is to explore the scientific corpus about urban resilience using systemic bibliometric method. By mixing two different methodologies, we conducted a three-phases qualitative study. In the first phase we selected and described a papers database provided by Scopus and Web of Science, in the second we deepen the analysis for a systemic overlook and in the final step we proposea research agenda. This method was designed by a systemic perspective of input-processing-output data to align different scientific subjects. Results reveal that the majority of studies is concentrated on environmental and transportareas. The studies that take account other pertinent factors to the complexity of cities like human behavior, individual moving, and central-peripheries location are far from dialoguing with engineering solutions to improve urban resilience. Results show interdisciplinary approaches between engineering and social sciences are needed to deal with urban resilience. The future agenda of this theme tends to optimize social data to produce new products and solutions to shape holistic solutions to address urban resilience complexity. Mapping systems are pointed to be a new way to integrate both literature.