Urban resilience is the focus of a global policy discourse that is being mobilized by a wide range of organizations to reduce urban risk and respond to the shocks and stresses facing cities. This paper explores the process of “governing for resilience” through Durban’s resilience journey as part of the 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) programme. From an insider perspective, it presents both 100RC and Durban’s approaches to developing a resilience strategy. It reflects on the contestations that emerged as Durban and 100RC struggled over the meaning and practice of urban resilience. The paper develops a continuum of urban resilience approaches to analyse the conflicts that emerged as the global programme of urban resilience travelled to, and landed in, a South African city. The paper argues that a global framing of urban resilience needs to be responsive to a world of cities that share common risk trajectories but have different contexts and vulnerabilities.⁽¹⁾

城市适应力是全球政策讨论的重点，许多组织正在调动这些政策以降低城市风险并应对城市面临的冲击和压力。本文探讨了德班的复原力之旅中的“为复原力治理”的过程，这是“ 100个复原力城市”（100RC）计划的一部分。从内部人士的角度，它介绍了100RC和德班制定弹性策略的方法。它反映了德班和100RC在城市弹性的意义和实践方面进行斗争时出现的争论。本文开发了一个城市弹性方法的连续体，以分析全球城市弹性计划在进驻南非城市时发生的冲突。^（1）