An Analytical View on Resilience Urban Planning, Focusing on Urban Transport Systems and Climate Change

Increasing economic, social and spatial vulnerabilities and pressures due to incorporation of urban areas into the new global economy and opening the door to external pressures necessitate building resilient urban systems. The entrepreneurial logic in property markets decreases the opportunity for public concerns, and unequal power relations and the privatization of the state make proactive measures to unexpected crisis and hazards difficult. Moreover, increasing ecological vulnerabilities require connecting planning and science of ecology and enhancing ecological resilience of urban systems. Over the coming decades, the need to build capacity for greater resilience will require our cities to develop strategies for coping with the future shocks and stresses to our urban infrastructure systems associated with climate change. Our cites will also have to find ways to significantly reduce their dependence on oil and other fossil fuels - to find ways to become more self-sufficient and energy efficient in the face the economic realities of energy transition associated with energy scarcity (often now referred to as "peak oil"). In fact, an effective urban planning could play an important role in facilitating the development of a greater capacity for future resilience. Therefore the main debate in this paper is to survey and analyze the interrelations of efficiency and resiliency in urban transport system as well as developing roadmaps and principles for resilient urban transport system with a focus on energy consumption and its subsequent ecological impacts. This paper aims at developing a conceptual framework and principles for both resilient and energy efficient urban transport system.