Understanding the mechanism of risk disturbances and its dynamic processes  on urban spatial structure is of great practical and theoretical significance for resilient  urban planning and construction. This paper analyzes the relationship of urban  spatial structure and residents’ lives under the effect of risk disturbances based on the  coupling relationship between flow network and spatial network. We integrate risk  disturbance, spatial structure, and daily life into a unified analytical framework by using  elements’ flow as the medium. From the perspective of risk disturbance, we develop a  theoretical framework for studying the resilience mechanism of urban spatial structure  at four levels: the mechanism by which risk disturbance affects urban spatial structure,  the dynamics of urban spatial structure, the change of urban spatial structure, and  space emergency response. An empirical method to investigate urban spatial structure  resilience mechanisms is proposed by combining typical risk disturbance scenarios with  four components: construction of spatial networks, urban resilience measurement,  identification of key elements, and smart resilience governance, providing a new  perspective for researches on urban resilience mechanism and optimal spatial regulation.

Community resilience assessment is a critical premise in improving communities’ ability  to respond to public health emergencies, and it is necessary to incorporate multi-scale correlations  between the community and the external environment into resilience evaluation. Based on the  international experience of community resilience research under public health risks, this paper  provides a paradigm for community resilience evaluation in cities from the perspective of external  linkages, which elaborates on the meaning of community resilience in terms of the community itself  and external aspects, proposes five dimensions of community resilience: economic, social, facilities,  space, and governance, and three spatial scales: community, living circle, and city, and then chooses  the corresponding quantitative indicators. Based on this, resilience assessment and correlation  characteristics research of urban communities are conducted, using the central district of Wuhan  City as an example. As a result, four categories of connections for community resilience are found:  balanced development, external dependence, self-led, and weak integration. For each resilience  characteristic and community type, improvement measures are then suggested. This study is  expected to provide useful exploration for theoretical research and practical application of resilience  in terms of community resilience assessment methods and external association characteristics.

In the face of natural disasters and public health events, the ability of urban residents to access living supplies is one of the keys to maintaining an everyday life for residents. It is also a critical microcosmic manifestation of urban resilience. Currently, the construction of emergency supplies for communities in China still needs improvement. The “last foot” of the supply chain has become a key challenge for emergency supplies. Japan and the United States have widely promoted the construction of emergency functions in community commercial facilities to strengthen the ability to guarantee emergency supplies at the community level. This paper starts with theories of urban resilience and combination of normal conditions and calamity. By sorting out the current problems in building emergency supply systems at the community level in China, summarizing construction and management problems in the transition of the urban community commercial facilities between normal times and disaster periods and analyzing the experience of use of urban community commercial facilities in disaster period in Japan and the United States, this paper proposes several suggestions to strengthen the efficiency of transition between normal times and disaster periods and the emergency management capacity of the urban community commercial facilities. These suggestions include: establishing regulations for using community commercial facilities in disaster periods, improving cooperation mechanism by support policy, strengthening the disaster adaptation capacity of hardware facilities, constructing emergency plans for continuous operation.

While recognition of the dangers of extreme heat in cities continues to grow, heat resilience remains a relatively new area of urban planning. One barrier to the creation and successful implementation of neighborhood-scale heat resilience plans has been a lack of reliable strategies for resident engagement. In this research, the authors designed a two-week summer STEM module for youth ages 12 to 14 in Roanoke, Virginia in the Southeastern United States. Participants collected and analyzed temperature and thermal comfort data of varying types, including from infrared thermal cameras and point sensors, handheld weather sensors, drones, and satellites, vehicle traverses, and student peer interviews. Based on primary data gathered during the program, we offer insights that may assist planners seeking to engage residents in neighborhood-scale heat resilience planning efforts. These lessons include recognizing: (1) the problem of heat in neighborhoods and the social justice aspects of heat distribution may not be immediately apparent to residents; (2) a need to shift perceived responsibility of heat exposure from the personal and home-based to include the social and landscape-based; (3) the inextricability of solutions for thermal comfort from general issues of safety and comfort in neighborhoods; and (4) that smart city technologies and high resolution data are helpful “hooks” to engagement, but may be insufficient for shifting perception of heat as something that can be mitigated through decisions about the built environment.

The rural program and planning entering the countryside filled the hollow of rural governance and spawned a boom in rural physical construction. The accumulation of government funds in the countryside formed considerable assets, and the focus of rural revitalization has shifted from “rural construction” to “rural operation”. The feature of the government being short of market operation creates a need to introduce market entities, but the profit-seeking nature of market entities makes it difficult for them to undertake benefit mitigation. The state-owned enterprise is an important tool for the government to realize the market-oriented operation of projects, so it becomes a new choice for rural operation subjects between the government and the market. Taking Qianjiadu in Jiangning District of Nanjing as a typical case, this paper points out that the stated-owned enterprise operating model village project became the obligatory passage point, opened a window for governance and reconstruction, led Qianjiadu to go through two stages of space construction and asset operation, and realized rural material renewal and asset revitalization. This paper reveals that after state-owned enterprises went to the countryside, a stable governance structure with economic and social separation has been formed in Qianjiadu, but there remain problems of unsustainable rural development caused by the dilemma of business models and the loss of village collective autonomy.

How to convert the abandoned industrial waterfront into various land-use types is a crucial topic in the post-industrial era. Spanning more than half a century till now, the regeneration process of Baltimore Inner Harbor has resulted in diverse land-use types, which has laid a good foundation for this waterfront neighborhood to achieve vitality and affinity. Based on the generation and mixing process of each land-use type, and in combination with the strategies and events involved in the regeneration process, this paper summarizes three flexible planning mechanisms, including “adjustment of blueprint based on real-time operation results at the early stage”, “building a public-private cooperation platform to promote the mixed-use development at the middle stage”, and “setting permitted uses to promote multi-functional combination at the last stage”, providing references for the development orientation and planning mechanism of the regeneration of China’s industrial waterfront.

In the context of stock space planning, the relationship between innovation district and urban regeneration has become increasingly tight, which has promoted the planning practice of regeneration-oriented innovation districts. This paper firstly discusses the characteristics of regeneration-oriented innovation districts. By taking the example of Boston’s South Harbor Area, this paper then analyzes its transformation process from an old industrial district to an innovation district. Furthermore, this paper interprets seven plans that has been promulgated over the past more than two decades and are related with the development of the innovation district. On this basis, this paper summarizes four suggestions for the development and planning of regeneration-oriented innovation districts in China, which include: (1) creating a space environment conducive to innovation;  (2) building a multi-level functional hybrid guidance system; (3) paying attention to the innovative catalyst effect of “anchor” institutions; and (4) establishing sustainable planning and management mechanisms.