Risk management due to the unstoppable effects of climate change on the territory is an
increasingly topical subject in the international scientific debate.
The theme of changing cities involves different disciplinary sectors, so it would not be exhaustive to
analyse it from a unilateral point of view.
The contribution proposes a multidisciplinary and multi-scale analysis related to the adaptation
measures of urban agglomerations through a socio-economic analysis aimed at achieving a high
level of security, efficiency of ecosystems and social inclusion.
Overcoming the sectorial and specialist approach of modernist urbanism is the basis for addressing
what appears to be the "challenge" of the new millennium.
It is authors' conviction that the physical transformations of space, in the presence of
geomorphological alterations due to climate change, must be based on strategic policies in the
medium and long term, shared and articulated at the different levels of government of the territory.
In this frame of reference, the question of density merges with the concept of sustainability,
overcoming it, becoming a new paradigm of urban resilience
