Resilient City: Characterization, Challenges and Outlooks

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The increasingly severe environmental pollution and the Earth’s ecological crisis make the concept of resilient cities (RCs) a hot topic in urban research. We ran a bibliometric analysis to analyze the research progress, areas, hotspots, and strategies pertaining to RCs. The core collection came from the Web of Science (WoS) database as the data source to explore 4462 literature works on RCs. The results revealed that development time series analysis is divided into three stages. Changes in the number of publications are linked to natural disasters, the ecological environment, and science policy. The top five issuing journals accounted for 24.15% of the total sample. Country cooperation mainly is concentrated in countries with good economic development trends, such as the United States, China, and the United Kingdom. There were 63 core authors. The most published research institution was the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The RC research hotspots included the definition of resilience and evolution, the study of resilience as an analytical framework for urban issues, and resilience assessment indicators. This paper shows that RCs should strengthen multi-country cooperation and interdisciplinary integration and should focus on comprehensive research on basic theories, evaluation systems, and action mechanisms to reference future research on RCs further.

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Jeremy Cenci: (View ORCID Profile)

Jiazhen Zhang: (View ORCID Profile)

Journal

Title: Buildings

Abbreviated Title: Buildings

Publisher: MDPI AG

ISSN (Electronic): 2075-5309

Publication date Created: May 2022

Publication date (Electronic): April 21 2022

Volume: 12

Issue: 5

Page: 516

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DOI: 10.3390/buildings12050516

SO-VID: 4fa76bf9-5b98-4e81-ab7a-9a272a91fad5

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