Fragility and Antifragility in Cities and Regions

Edited by Francesco Curci, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Daniele Chiffi, Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU), Politecnico di Milano, Italy

• Contents:Introduction to Fragility and Antifragility in Cities and Regions 1Francesco Curci and Daniele ChiffiPART I CONCEPTS AND INTERPRETATIONS OFFRAGILITY AND ANTIFRAGILITY1 Disentangling antifragility from resilience 6Daniele Chiffi and Francesco Curci2 Forms of rationality facing uncertainty: wisdom’s possiblekey role in antifragility 24Simona Chiodo3 Antifragility: politics and common knowledge 39Gabriele PasquiPART II MODELS AND PARADIGM SHIFTS IN ANANTIFRAGILE PERSPECTIVE4 Planning for the unseen 57Alessandro Balducci5 Urban policy design for antifragility 70Ivan Blečić and Arnaldo Cecchini6 Institutional fragility and institutional malleability:a reflection starting from the Covid-19 pandemic 90Stefano Moroni7 Fragility as a condition: the landscape perspective 107Antonio Longo and Annalisa Metta8 Antifragile architecture: under what conditions is anarchitectural project antifragile? 134Stefano GuidariniPART III CASES AND APPLICATIONS9 Antifragile strategies for abandoned heritage: newapproaches and a dialogue between humanism and technique 149Annunziata Maria Oteri10 Territorial variety as an antifragile resource: the Italian case 165Antonio De Rossi and Arturo Lanzani11 Italian social policies coping with fragility: the challengeof continuity in time, space and life pathways 181Massimo Bricocoli and Stefania Sabatinelli12 Urban heritage fragility and antifragility: Matera and the2019 European Capital of Culture 195Davide Ponzini, Zachary M. Jones, Enrico Tommarchi,Stefano D’Armento, Alessandro Scandiffio and Franco Bianchini13 Governing the commons on an Aegean island: themanagement of water resources on Sifnos, Greece 210Amalia Zepou and Manos MatsaganisIndex

‘This is an exciting addition to urban studies that provides scholars with new avenues to “get under the skin” of our chaotic and ever-changing urban environments by viewing these as an intricate relations existing between risk and uncertainty, vulnerability and resilience, and fragility and antifragility. I highly recommend the book to anyone whose work relates to the ‘wicked problems’ facing cities!’