CCSS Meeting #71: Building Urban Resilience through Temporal, Spatial, and Cultural Perspectives

This lecture will be held in physical format at the CCSS Living Room (Min. 4.16) with lunch and refreshments provided. The theme of this CCSS Lunch Meeting is Resilience.

Speaker Overview
Dr. Nazli Aydin is an Associate Professor in the Systems Engineering section of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). Additionally, she is a member of the 4TU-Resilience Engineering Desire program. Nazli is currently leading a research community focused on urban research and contributing to the management team for the "TPM Resilience Lab". Her primary research interests involve measuring and quantifying the resilience of urban and critical infrastructure in the built environment, utilizing geospatial data science and network science. She is particularly interested in spatially explicit resilience characterization, developing methods for evaluating the (co)benefits or trade-offs of implementing climate adaptation and resilience intervention strategies at spatial and temporal scales, and long-term recovery and resilience building after large-scale disasters.

Lecture Overview
Resilience is becoming more critical as cities face the combined challenges of natural disasters, crises, climate change, and rapid urbanization. In this context, addressing long-term resilience, recognizing the role of communities in post-disaster recovery, and integrating both temporal and spatial dynamics in long-term city planning is a complex task for urban planners. In this lecture, I will explain how urban resilience theory can guide planning for disruptions and share insights from three case studies: the temporal dynamics of building urban resilience, a data-driven analysis of co-evolving urban systems, and the role of cultural identity in post-disaster recovery. This lecture will focus on how to build resilience in urban systems that bridge short-term responses with long-term transformation.

There will be 45-min lecture from the speaker, followed by a 15-min discussion session.

To attend the lecture, please signup below before 15:00 on Monday March 24.