Creative diversity: facing Anthropocene challenges fostering resilience capacities

Diversity and heterogeneity emerge as recurrent characteristics of resilient practices. The chapter moves from this perspective, emphasizing the relevance of creative diversity and redundancy proprieties' contribution to urban and territorial innovation. The creative diversity is the fil rouge adopted in retracing the resilience concept applied to territorial systems. The chapter reframes the resilience approaches focusing on the characterizing properties as inspirations in urban and territorial solutions design. It recognizes the creative diversity and redundancy as crosscutting properties that provide a common conceptual umbrella to the heterogeneous resilience practices and boost a more solid and explicit contribution of the resilience practices into the transition process toward more resilient, adaptive, and sustainable urban and territorial systems. The creative diversity is explored along four spheres connecting emerging approaches to urban public life, urban regeneration, and resilience practices. The four spheres or spaces for urban creative diversity are space for nature (ecological diversity and evolution and functional diversity of green spaces for wellness), space for social diversity (creativity of all and the functional creative diversity in public life), spaces for functional diversity (boosting creative economic diversity and urban models innovation), and organizational and creative diversity of governance processes and knowledge. The aim is to connect emerging phenomena from resilience practices geographies and promising action domains for urban resilience enhancement. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.