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Sustained resilience as a unifying property of cities and the built environment

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: The built environment evolves, deteriorates and regenerates over time, yet resilience is commonly reduced to discrete event-based recovery while long-term performance is treated through sustainability. This separation obscures how resilience unfolds across lifecycles. We introduce sustained resilience as a unifying property that integrates resilience and sustainability, capturing the cumulative and adaptive capacity of the built environment and cities to maintain function, learn from disruption and evolve through successive cycles of change.

Source: npj Urban Sustainability

DOI: 10.1038/s42949-026-00457-3

Authors: Stergios-Aristoteles Mitoulis, Nadiia Kopiika, Roberta Di Bari, Sotirios Argyroudis

Institutions: University College London, Brunel University of London

Language: English

Topic: Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis

Subfield: Civil and Structural Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,490