Abstract | This chapter proposes an approach to understand and map city social and environmental vulnerabilities, alongside bottom-up and emerging community experiences in response to the pandemic, with the aim to provide a critical understanding on whether the goal of designing climate resilient and socially inclusive post-pandemic neighbourhoods can be achievable. This is in response to the UN-HABITAT call to enhance the ‘resiliency against all hazards’, in times of pandemic, and tackle together economic shocks, public health crisis, and climate challenges. A framework of city resiliency based on the principles of climate urbanism is applied to the Lower Lea Valley in East London, in the context of studio pedagogy. This helps envision how to design post-pandemic sustainable climate actions, while critically taking into account the role of communities and other local actors. However, it also shows that such scenarios might reproduce inequality at the local level, with limited capacity to address inclusion if multi-level and multi-scalar approaches are not employed. |
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