Building resilience in complex cities: Ontological approaches for the case study of Taranto, Italy

Abstract

This contribution describes the research path and identification of methods and tools for implementing strategic and urban planning aimed at enhancing the response of the Taranto city system in terms of resilience. We present here a reflection on planning, insights into the concept of resilience we are looking at, a diachronic analysis of the economic policies that have affected the city of Taranto, the description of the method of ontological analysis and applied ontology to manage and represent knowledge to develop a decision support tool that allows the empowerment of resilience itself. We close this reflection with perspectives of evolution and application of this path through the different tools and approaches for planning and resilience.