With the increasing appearance of less- and de-centralised (water and energy) infrastructure systems as part of new residential developments, it is especially important to determine how these systems affect the resilience of Victorian communities.

Design and planning of infrastructure in urban developments without specific attention to social and institutional arrangements may undermine community resilience. However, social and institutional enablers of resilience can be fostered by policy makers, developers, utility providers and other stakeholders.

The aim of this paper is to consider how the concept of urban resilience could be better embedded into the urban process of decision-making and policy development and therefore result in more resilient cities.

The importance of place and place-making has long been advocated by urban planners, geographers and philosophers. In reflecting on contemporary social and community planning, this paper will look to luminaries for inspiration for how we as researchers, practitioners, educators and students might work alongside communities seeking ways to create and sustain contented, healthy and resilient...

In the context of cities the terms 'resilience' and 'vulnerability' are often seen narrowly in terms of physical infrastructure, demographic data, tangible assets and documented economic flows. These are very important, but there may be more fundamental contributors to vulnerability in cities as large agglomerations of human diversity, wealth creation and almost infinite sources of...