Abstract:
Driven by industrialization and urbanization, rapidly expanding industrial mega-towns are facing severe resource and environmental pressures. Optimizing spatial allocation has emerged as a crucial mechanism for promoting high-quality development in these towns. This paper explores the role of space in achieving urban sustainable development goals using the concept of resilience. By analyzing the interplay between stability and adaptation, generality and specificity, and space and behavior within the framework of spatial resilience, the concept of resilience is correlated with urban spatial characteristics. Based on differences in abstraction levels, an evaluation system for urban spatial resilience is constructed using a hierarchical approach. An evaluation system for urban spatial resilience is proposed, structured around the abstract levels of 'target capability-feature attributionstate index'. An evaluation system for urban spatial resilience is constructed based on the hierarchical differences, forming an 'objective-capability-feature attribution-state index' evaluation system for urban spatial resilience. This paper selects six typical industrial mega-towns in Zhejiang Province. An evaluation framework is constructed based on regional connectivity capacity, urban stability capacity, and urban renewal capacity to assess spatial resilience and analyze its influencing factors. The results demonstrate that the assessment can reveal the relative strengths and weaknesses of urban spatial resilience. Notably, no clear correlation was found between urban spatial resilience and the development level, suggesting that urban spatial resilience exhibits strong situational dependence, which warrants further investigation.