Towards a Methodological Framework for Evaluating Urban Resilience: Spatial Indicators for Addressing Complex Urban Systems

Resilience is a crucial factor in addressing contemporary challenges in urban development and planning, as cities increasingly face negative impacts of climate change, natural hazards, and rapid urbanization. Particularly, urban resil-ience is a complex, dynamic, and multilayered concept that refers to a city's ability to withstand and recover from both sudden shocks and long-term stresses. This study aims to develop a catalog of resilience indicators to support planning processes, and intends to test it in a real case study in fu-ture research. The methodological approach follows a structured process: (i) a literature review to identify and refine resilience indicators, (ii) the con-struction of an indicator catalog based on selected sources, and (iii) the ap-plication of selected indicators to a case study. The city of Turin (Italy) is proposed as a potential urban context for testing the catalog with a targeted set of indicators, with a focus on the northeastern districts of the city. The application process will involve mapping and analyzing resilience indicators to evaluate and monitor urban transformations resulting from plans and pro-jects, including those linked to the Italian recovery fund (PNRR). This re-search contributes to the development of tools for evaluating urban resili-ence through a context-specific and planning oriented approach that seeks to balance natural and human capital.