University of Massachusets Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Studio and Student Research and Creative Activity Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Spring 2011 From fail-safe to safe-to-fail: sustainability and resilience in the new urban world Jack F. Ahern University of Massachusets - Amherst, jfa@larp.umass.edu Follow this and additional works at: htps://scholarworks.umass.edu/larp_grad_research Part of the Agricultural and Resource Economics Commons , Cultural Resource Management and Policy Analysis Commons , Earth Sciences Commons , Environmental Design Commons , Landscape Architecture Commons , Urban, Community and Regional Planning Commons , and the Urban Studies and Planning Commons Tis Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Studio and Student Research and Creative Activity by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact scholarworks@library.umass.edu. Ahern, Jack F., "From fail-safe to safe-to-fail: sustainability and resilience in the new urban world" (2011). Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Studio and Student Research and Creative Activity. 8. Retrieved from htps://scholarworks.umass.edu/larp_grad_research/8 brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst