The goal of the Urban Resilient Design Guidelines is to generate awareness regarding the impact of different urban phenomena on urban resilience through the inclusion of relevant stakeholders, while emphasizing their potential input. These stakeholders engage in routine and non- routine urban activities and they include emergency services, natural hazards experts and community agents. Their experience and knowledge is often overlooked during urban planning and design processes.

 

Certain urban features promote urban resilience during planned and unplanned events, and the urban designer is seldom aware of their potential impact on urban vulnerability. By highlighting which urban features can promote resilience during the urban design procedures, we include resilience and security perspectives within the urban design itself, by pointing out urban features which affect resilience that are within the perimeter of the plans. In this way we implement a concept of security before the building process has started. Due to a wide range of cultural and systematic differences there is no single solution for enhancing resilience in this tool; rather we point which urban features may compromise urban resilience.  Utilizing an extensive incident database coupled with in-depth interviews with various stakeholders in the UK and Israel we isolated the urban features that should be accounted for resilience during designing and planning an urban landscape.