Abstract: In recent years, with the accelerated process of urbanization, the continuous growth of urban areas and population sizes has posed higher demands on urban earthquake safety. The theory of resilient cities offers a new approach to effectively address urban earthquake safety risks. However, there is still a lack of reasonable methods for assessing and constructing urban seismic resilience both domestically and internationally. Therefore, this paper elucidates the connotation, essential characteristics, components, and evaluation indicators of a seismic-resilient city, summarizing the components of urban seismic resilience as "one fundamental, two guarantees," which include the engineering system, institutional system, and social and economic system. This paper establishes a dual-parameter urban seismic resilience assessment method based on post-earthquake losses and recovery time, proposing a "set goals, assess, improve, reassess" approach for building resilient cities. The proposed method can provide theoretical guidance and practical basis for assessing and enhancing the seismic resilience of individual infrastructures, engineering systems, urban systems, and resilience to other disasters.
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