Against the backdrop of intensifying global climate change and frequent extreme disasters, urban safety and disaster preparedness face severe challenges. Resilient cities and communities, a new paradigm integrating disaster prevention and mitigation, ecological sustainability, and intelligent governance, have become a key direction for the resilient, sustainable and inclusive urbanization, while ensuring citizens’ safety and health.

This special issue, focusing on " Building Cities and Communities with resilience and Coexisting with Safety", aims to pool expertise from the urban construction industry, promote theoretical breakthroughs and practical innovations in resilience planning, disaster risk assessment, engineering disaster prevention and mitigation, and intelligent early warning, and contribute scientific solutions and policy pathways to enhance urban resilience and safeguard public safety.

The special issue aims to cover topics that include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Resilient urban and rural planning and design
• Improving community disaster resilience
• Extreme climate adaptation strategies
• Multi-hazard coupled risk assessment
• Ecological space and disaster prevention coordination
• Intelligent disaster monitoring and early warning technology
• Urban infrastructure disaster resilience
• Civil engineering structure seismic resistance and reinforcement technology
• New disaster prevention materials and structures
• Blast and impact resistance of engineering structures
• Interdisciplinary resilience governance mechanism

Academic Editors

Prof. Dr. Guofang Zhai (guofang_zhai@nju.edu.cn)
School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

Dr. Yangli Li (liyangli@tju.edu.cn)
School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621000, China

Associate Prof. Dr. Yijun Shi (yijun_shi@zafu.edu.cn)
College of Landscape Architecture, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, China

Associate Prof. Dr. Wei Zhai (wei.zhai@utsa.edu)
College of Architecture, Planning, and Public Affairs, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USA

Associate Prof. Dr. Meng Meng (mmeng@scut.edu.cn)
Department of Urban Planning, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China

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All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed following the established policies and procedures of the journal. The final papers will be selected for publication depending on the results of the peer-review process and the reviews of the Academic Editors and Editor-in-Chief.