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

Introduction: Valorizing the resilience of small and medium-sized cities

Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Kofi Diko, Stephen Leonard Mensah, Louis Kusi Frimpong and Matthew Abunyewah

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

Truus Apoanaba Abuosi and Stephen Kofi Diko

2. Framing the Resilience Research Agenda of Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Global South Countries: A Review

Truus Apoanaba Abuosi and Stephen Kofi Diko

3. Climate and Environmental Risks and Resilience in Small and Medium-sized Cities in Africa

Adjoa Afriyie Poku, Kofi Sarkodie, Felix Kofi Damte, Bismark Mensah, Joe Mensah, Esther Yeboah Danso-Wiredu, and Godwin Arku

4. Pathways for Resilience to Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from Bamenda, Cameroon

Suiven John Paul Tume and Yongka Bernard Nyuyse

5. Climate change awareness and adaptive practices among riverbank communities along the Ogun River, Nigeria: Implications for climate resilience

Folasade Jokotade Odekunle, Gabriel Olabisi Adebayo, Adewole Hakeem Ayinde, and Emmanuel Onakunle Onabanjo

6. Walkability in Medium-sized Brazilian Cities: A Scoping Review

Ma. Daniela Pereira Almeida, Klaus Chaves Albert, and Ítalo Itamar Caixeiro Stepha

7. Linking urban insecurity, private shuttle service adoption and resilience in South African cities

Ayobami Abayomi Popoola, Nunyi Blamah, Edmore Mutsaa, and Hangwelani Magidimisha-Chipungu

8. The Non-linear Spatial Grid of Urban Villages in Small and Medium-sized Towns: Implications for Urban Resilience in India

Anand Khatri and Jay Mittal

9. The Khon Kaen Model: Balancing Growth and Resilience?

Sidh Sintusingha and Kitapatr Dhabhalabutr

10. The Economic Transformation of Ezulwini Town: A Case Study in Strategic Investment and Development

Mhlalisi Gavu Mndzebele, Saidi Finzi, and Trynos Gumbo

11. Urbanisation and Socio-Economic Vulnerability: Comparative Pathways for Urban Resilience in sub-Saharan Africa

Philip Mensah, Eric Yankson, and Derrick Frimpong Buabeng

12. Contextualizing Resilient Planning in Khulna, Bangladesh

Mahin Mehnaz

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

Anjali Katare, Jeewasmi Thapa, Jaimie Masterson, and Matthew Malecha

14. Secondary Cities at the Interface of Disaster Risk Reduction: Assessing Institutional Readiness in Undersieged Towns

Daniel Kojo Annobil, Stephen Leonard Mensah, Seth Asare Okyere, and Frederick Wontumi

15. Fire Outbreaks, Disaster Resilience and the Right to the City: The Case of Informal Settlements in Namibia

Eric Yankson, Tinoapei Dhliwayo, Conrad Stoffberg, Gaby Hansen, Alaric Britz, Esther Calunga, Jonathan Josef Müller, Derrick Frimpong Buabeng, and Philip Mensah

16. The COVID-19 Pandemic, Urban Food Value Chains and Resilience Planning in Small and Medium-sized Cities of Namibia

Eric Yankson

17. Environmental resilience planning in overlooked small towns:  Examining temporalities and structural challenges in access to water and sanitation in Yilo Krobo municipality, Ghana.

Louis Kusi Frimpong, Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Leonard Mensah, and Armstrong Francis Tumawu

18. Mainstreaming heat resilience in local development plans of small and medium-sized urbanizing jurisdictions: A focus on semi-arid Ghana

Stephen Kofi Diko, Truus Apoanaba Abuosi, Seth Asare Okyere, Seth Opoku Mensah, Stephen Leonard Mensah, and Simon Donkoh

19. Stocktaking Nature-based Solutions in Africa: Implications for Equitable Resilience in Small and medium-sized Cities

Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Leonard Mensah, and Justina Addai

20. Addressing Extreme Heat in US Cities via Nature-based solutions: A Mapping Approach to Identifying Places for Action in Memphis, TN

Leta Andrea Rowan and Stephen Kofi Diko

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

Antonella Contin and Alessandra Pandolfi

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

Stefan Chavez-Norgaard

23. Transforming Altenburg: The rise of right-wing populism and the restoration of local trust

Frank Eckardt

24. Public Health Adaptation to Extreme Heat in Small and Medium-sized Cities

Chunrong Jia and Abu Mohammed Naser Titu

25. Urban farm-based businesses for circular waste management: Exploring Food Waste Circuits in Masaka, Uganda

Nataliya Apanovich

26. Strategies for Sustainable Urban Renewal of Small and Medium-Sized Cities: The Canadian Experience

Avi Friedman

27. Indigenous Innovation for Managing Environmental Risk in Nigerian Small and Medium-Sized Cities

Oluwafisayo Deborah Ogunmodede

28. Governing Municipalities: Steering the Resilient Futures of Small and Medium-Sized Cities

Mpumelelo Phakathi

29. In the Age of Skepticism: Building Partnerships with Nonprofits to Strengthen Resilience in SMCs

C. Aujean Lee and John C. Harris

30. Revisiting Urban Resilience within the New Urban Agenda: The Role of informal urban agriculture in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Talent Moyo, Chipo Hungwe, and Faith Zengeni

Conclusion

Louis Kusi Frimpong, Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Kofi Diko, Matthew Abunyewah, and Stephen Leonard Mensah

Biography

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.