Beyond Resilience: Transformative Urbanism in the Age of Polycrisis

By Morteza Gholamzadeh

Beyond Resilience argues that the defining urban challenge of the twenty-first century is no longer resilience alone, but transformation. As climate change, ecological degradation, technological disruption, economic instability, and social inequality converge into an interconnected polycrisis, conventional approaches to urban resilience are no longer sufficient. Cities must transform the political, ecological, and institutional systems that continuously reproduce vulnerability. Drawing on Urban Political Ecology, Ecological Political Economy, Urban Metabolism, resilience theory, and critical urban studies, the book develops a comprehensive framework for understanding how cities can move beyond adaptation toward structural transformation. Rather than asking how cities can survive an age of cascading crises, Beyond Resilience asks how they can become places of ecological regeneration, democratic renewal, and social justice. It offers not only a new way of understanding urban transformation, but a new theoretical foundation for imagining and creating the cities of the future.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9999350704
• ISBN13: 9789999350709
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Eliva Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"