Résumé
For several years now, resilience has been the new international horizon for public policy on risk and crisis management, an “imperative rule [… and] a universal aspiration”. Applied to flood risk, this “new paradigm” directly questions urban design, its practices and its practitioners, from a point of view of both the urban and architectural forms developed in a floodplain and the design processes for urban planning projects. Could resilient urban design, integrating flood risk fully into its processes and products, be just around the corner?