Resilient cities critical infrastructure interdependence: a meta-research

Abstract

Given the unforeseen events that take continue to place worldwide, cities are experiencing rapid transformations. To maintain their basic functions, cities have to be resilient– possess the ability to bounce back to their original state following extreme events. Unfortunately, the behavior of cities is complex because of the interdependence among their comprising infrastructure systems. The current work presents a critical review of research work pertaining to resilience of cities’ critical infrastructure systems. To conduct such review, meta-research is employed through text analytics, in the form of topic modelling, to quantitatively uncover related latent topics in pertinent literature. Subsequently, the identified topics are qualitatively analyzed in terms of established definitions and metrics for resilience as well as adopted simulation approaches for infrastructure systems interdependence. Accordingly, nine common topics and five major research gaps are identified. This meta-research study is a steppingstone towards better understanding of infrastructure systems interdependence simulation and their resilience quantification approaches.