Abstract
The concept of Resilience is relatively new in Urban Planning. When we discuss the resilience in terms of a city the idea revolves around the unforeseen events, how the event affected or will affect the city, and the cities ability to return to the pre-event state or improve upon the past state with better solutions. Considering the growing urban population, as estimated by the United Nations - 70% of the global population will be residing in the cities by 2050, changing climate, pollution thoughts on Urban Planning and urban resilience felt essential. Along with that effort from various stakeholders, including but not limited to decision-makers, city representatives, Governing bodies, the private sector, civil society, non-governmental organizations, community-based organizations, research institutions, etc. are required to create a resilient urban plan. Historic events of past disasters such as Lisbon Earthquake, The Great Stink, Black Sunday Dust storm will be studied along with the more recent events of the flood, cyclone, etc. to understand the cause, how the disaster affected the city, recovery measures adopted by the city and its impact. This paper will study the literature available pertaining to the definition of urban resilience, where the definition intersects, complement or contradicts with each other; the impact on the city and its built form; planning measured adopted by the cities along with other planning interventions and implications of the strategies adopted and its impact on city administration, community, and city as a whole.
