Sustained resilience as a unifying property of cities and the built environment
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.
Authors
- Roberta Di Bari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0203-5755)
- Nadiia Kopiika (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2270-4028)
- Sotirios Argyroudis
- Stergios-Aristoteles Mitoulis
Institutions
- Twitter (United States) (US)
- University of London (GB)
- Meta (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Centre for Sustainable Energy (GB)
- University College London (GB)
- Brunel University of London (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- npj Urban Sustainability
- Published
- 2026-08-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-026-00457-3
- Primary Topic
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Government of the United Kingdom
- UK Research and Innovation
- Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
- HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme