This document discusses resilience in urban contexts between South America and Europe. It notes that while cities today share some similar trends in urban planning, people living in different cities build distinct models based on their unique historical, cultural, political and economic experiences. As a result, risk perception varies between urban contexts. The document then examines specific issues facing cities in South America, such as socioeconomic inequality, and in Europe, such as the need for improved circulation from industrialization. It stresses the importance of bottom-up community participation and horizontal cooperation between cities to strengthen resilience.

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Matías Barberis Rami, University of Ferrara, Italy

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While today the cities present certain significantly similar trends in
terms of urban planning, aimed mainly to rationalization,
functionalization and revitalization of areas,
people that live in the city build different models based on a
historical, cultural, political and economic path.
Thus, the perception of risk varies between different urban
contexts in the world.

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The reconstruction plans were invented to circumvent the
basic rules of planning; generally away from a proper and rational
management of territorial transformations.
They have an optical of short and medium term, losing the sense
of planning in a sustainable manner.

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SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES
Share the origin of the theoretical model of urbanization come from
European colonization of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Today main issues
The growing socio-economic inequality, the complexity of vehicular
traffic, poverty, the development of informal settlements generally in
areas with dynamic and vulnerable to natural events relief, etc.

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Planning respond to the effects in the succeeding century of the
industrial revolution and was carried out in periods of authoritarian
rule.
Today main issues
The need to improve circulation, administrative decentralization, the
growth of the service sector, the accessibility of public
administration and the compulsory required search of
environmental sustainability.
*High levels of mass-consumption-oriented planning

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COMMONS…
In some developing countries has been highlighted as a major the
solidarity value when a disaster occur, not from a state position,
but with a community and individual one.
The change in the vision of management and planning must start
even from below.
The process of governance is empty without the existence of real
mechanisms of social participation in decision-making and in
the implementation of any planned action.

17. KEY: Crosscutting axes of Urban Planning
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Each metropolis, its structure and particular situation display characteristics
that enable or constrain the ability to work resilience.
TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT
a) the economic potential for address a process of integrated risk
management through long-term urban planning;
b) flexibility and adaptability of governmental authorities when projecting
changes in the city;
c) promoting opportunities for citizen interaction to reverse the trend towards
individualism;
d) strengthening horizontal cooperation among cities with strong capacity for
action on the territory.

18. Added value for the Post 2015 Framework for
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Disaster Risk Reduction
• How did your work support the implementation of the Hyogo
Framework for Action and main gaps in terms of Policies:
It’s important to know if local actors manage or co-manage the risk,
and if they understand the process as part of local development in a
sustainable way.
The difficulty in strengthening real and effective horizontal
governance processes in social and political arenas is a cause of the
slow progress on the objectives of risk management and mitigation.
On this way, the main issue for the Post 2015 framework for disaster
risk reduction is the real and effective capacity of authorities –
public and corporative – to face with planning processes that
include the disaster risk management as a long term strategy.