Resilience and a city

Active natural and artificial dynamic changes in surrounding environment raise a series of questions about the necessity of a more effective development of pre-existing urban structures of historical cities. Transform a city and make it less vulnerable to extreme climate change conditions in terms of architecture and urban design - the resilience seems only one possible answer to this kind of task. Despite the fact that the concept of resilience received light in ecology in the late 1970s thanks to Canadian ecologist (C.S.Holling), anyway until now it seems difficult to applying also in architecture and urban design studies, thereby gaining more attention in architectural scientific circles. This study aims to examine possible options of transformation existing urban morphology of historical cities in resilient systems thanks to contemporary design and planning. The study starts from the meaning of the resilient concept in general and traces the possible ways of using and applying resilient science in architecture and town planning. Then from the existing world theoretical and practical experience the study identifying the most potential resilient architectural and urban planning solutions, that allows using contemporary design as the tool of transformation existing historical fabrics in resilient structures, adapting city’s’ morphology to be ready for irreversible climate changes. The result of the research will allow adapting and using the resilient science in architecture and urbanism, as one of the tools of transformation existing historical, and not only, structures of a city to dynamic resilient structures under extreme climate change conditions.