Abstract
Abstract The poor initial resilience of the ground-breaking Brazilian urban social housing programme ‘Minha Casa, Minha Vida’(MCMV) affects millions of people, who have tried to adapt their homes, survived the unexpected and have to reinvent themselves constantly. This study delimits the elements that compose the concept of resilience, namely: the impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptive capacities that characterize the resilience of the built environment in the case study selected. To achieve these aims, advanced Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) and Co-production techniques have been applied in the case study of a typical Brazilian MCMV development in Uberlandia (Brazil). The results highlighted factors going beyond the typical vulnerabilities already seen in most of these developments. They pointed out the adaptive recovery capacities as key factors for resilience. This case study provides the means to investigate resilience and its variables in depth within the specific context of MCMV’s social housing, subsidising designers and public policies makers in the elaboration of more resilient projects for these social housing communities.
Highlights
Built environment resilienceGiven the rapidly changing conditions currently caused by climate change, there is a global challenge for countries and its communities to be able to adapt and thrive in terms of improving their resilience
The New Urban Agenda (NUA) – and the United Nation’s SDGs (UNITED..., 2017) (Sustainable Development Goals from AGENDA 20302), state that greater resilience is key for combating vulnerability created by the rapid growth of urban centres and inadequate urbanisation, with an objective for urban areas to “[...] adopt and implement disaster risk reduction and management, reduce vulnerability, build resilience and respond to natural and man-made hazards, and promote climate change mitigation and adaptation [...]” (UNITED..., 2017)
This paper evaluates the resilience of an MCMV social housing complex as a case study of the “Shopping Park” project in the outskirts of the medium sized city of Uberlândia Brazilian MCMV development in Uberlandia (Brazil)
Summary
Given the rapidly changing conditions currently caused by climate change, there is a global challenge for countries and its communities to be able to adapt and thrive in terms of improving their resilience. The New Urban Agenda (NUA) – (from the Habitat III Conference1) and the United Nation’s SDGs (UNITED..., 2017) (Sustainable Development Goals from AGENDA 20302), state that greater resilience is key for combating vulnerability created by the rapid growth of urban centres and inadequate urbanisation, with an objective for urban areas to “[...] adopt and implement disaster risk reduction and management, reduce vulnerability, build resilience and respond to natural and man-made hazards, and promote climate change mitigation and adaptation [...]” (UNITED..., 2017). From Holling’s conceptualization (1973), the first definition, known as Engineering Resilience, refers to a stable system, where resilience is measured by resistance against a given disturbance and the speed of return to the previous equilibrium condition. In the second definition resilience is defined by the amount of disturbance that an unstable system can absorb before transforming its own structure and being able to cope with the new situation placed, known as Ecological Resilience (HOLLING, 1973)
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