Routledge Handbook of Resilient Urban Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Cities

Seth Asare Okyere is a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita-Osaka, Japan.Stephen K. Diko is an Assistant Professor at the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.Louis Kusi Frimpong is a Lecturer at the Department of Geography and Earth Science, University of Environment and Sustainable Development, Somanya, Ghana.Matthew Abunyewah is a Research-Focused Lecturer at the Faculty of Health, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia.Stephen Leonard Mensah is a PhD Candidate and Critical Urban Research Fellow at the University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

• Introduction: Valorizing the resilience of small and medium-sized cities PART ONE: GROUNDING URBAN RESILIENCE IN SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED CITIES 1. A Review of Resilience Research of Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Global North Countries 2. Framing the Resilience Research Agenda of Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Global South Countries: A Review 3. Climate and Environmental Risks and Resilience in Small and Medium-sized Cities in Africa 4. Pathways for Resilience to Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from Bamenda, Cameroon 5. Climate change awareness and adaptive practices among riverbank communities along the Ogun River, Nigeria: Implications for climate resilience 6. Walkability in Medium-sized Brazilian Cities: A Scoping Review 7. Linking urban insecurity, private shuttle service adoption and resilience in South African cities 8. The Non-linear Spatial Grid of Urban Villages in Small and Medium-sized Towns: Implications for Urban Resilience in India 9. The Khon Kaen Model: Balancing Growth and Resilience? 10. The Economic Transformation of Ezulwini Town: A Case Study in Strategic Investment and Development 11. Urbanisation and Socio-Economic Vulnerability: Comparative Pathways for Urban Resilience in sub-Saharan Africa 12. Contextualizing Resilient Planning in Khulna, Bangladesh PART TWO: PLANNING FOR RESILIENCE IN SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED CITIES 13. The Power of Planning: Mitigating diverse external threats among Small and Medium-sized Cities (SMCs) through the Texas Target Communities Program 14. Secondary Cities at the Interface of Disaster Risk Reduction: Assessing Institutional Readiness in Undersieged Towns 15. Fire Outbreaks, Disaster Resilience and the Right to the City: The Case of Informal Settlements in Namibia 16. The COVID-19 Pandemic, Urban Food Value Chains and Resilience Planning in Small and Medium-sized Cities of Namibia 17. Environmental resilience planning in overlooked small towns: Examining temporalities and structural challenges in access to water and sanitation in Yilo Krobo municipality, Ghana. 18. Mainstreaming heat resilience in local development plans of small and medium-sized urbanizing jurisdictions: A focus on semi-arid Ghana 19. Stocktaking Nature-based Solutions in Africa: Implications for Equitable Resilience in Small and medium-sized Cities 20. Addressing Extreme Heat in US Cities via Nature-based solutions: A Mapping Approach to Identifying Places for Action in Memphis, TN 21. Re-envisioning the Metro Urban-Rural Linkages as a Complex Adaptive System Encompassing Anti-fragility for Building Resilience in Small and Medium-Sized Cities PART THREE: INNOVATIONS AND PRACTICES FOR BUILDING RESILIENCE IN SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED CITIES 22. Bottom-up Governance for Resilient Urban Futures? Intersections and Tensions from Mahikeng, South Africa 23. Transforming Altenburg: The rise of right-wing populism and the restoration of local trust 24. Public Health Adaptation to Extreme Heat in Small and Medium-sized Cities 25. Urban farm-based businesses for circular waste management: Exploring Food Waste Circuits in Masaka, Uganda 26. Strategies for Sustainable Urban Renewal of Small and Medium-Sized Cities: The Canadian Experience 27. Indigenous Innovation for Managing Environmental Risk in Nigerian Small and Medium-Sized Cities 28. Governing Municipalities: Steering the Resilient Futures of Small and Medium-Sized Cities 29. In the Age of Skepticism: Building Partnerships with Nonprofits to Strengthen Resilience in SMCs 30. Revisiting Urban Resilience within the New Urban Agenda: The Role of informal urban agriculture in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Conclusion