AN INTRODUCTION OF URBAN DESIGN AS A TOOL FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE

Importance of resilience is more and more felt in various aspects of built environment in the ever changing, unpredictable complex world. The concept of resilience is now the new catch word brought up as part of the vision statements in many cases in local, national and international levels to present solutions for the world’s complex problems, in this case, urban areas. This concept has started a long journey from various disciplines, and its use is spreading through many disciplines as its capacity to deal with complex and unpredictable issue is becoming more tangible. The aim of this article is to introduce the concept of urban resilience in the field of urban design that is still unclear on the level of general goal setting statements even in the international ongoing campaigns. We need to extract attributes of urban resilience from resilience studies that usually come from other disciplines with the aim of implementing its principles in the world of design. Studying the process of managing urban form in relation to adaptation capacities has become an important priority in the global scene too. A preliminary introduction to urban resilience capacities is the goal of this research. Therefore, this research has tried to unveil the resilience attributes which sync with urban design principles and introduce them as a set of features that can be used to build up guidelines and documents for delivering resilience.