Abstract:
Resilient city planning has been characterized as capacity and capability to absorb and recover
from shocks and stresses that effect system, structure and infrastructure due to hazards.
Therefore for a community, resilience is more focused on the process of transformation and
ongoing changes happening in the city due to changing times and needs of future development.
However integration of resilience principles into planning system of the city is limited. There
are certain resilience regulatory indicators that are needed to be adopted in our land use
planning and zoning ordinance to help communities achieve resilient city status. The aim of
this research is to access the policies and barriers in making city resilient with respect to its
land uses. For this purpose relevant resilient land use planning principles and their regulatory
indicators were studied from literature. Furthermore, the land use policies at National,
Provincial and District level were analyzed and the presence of resilience principles were
examined in these policies of five districts of KP through content analysis and availability
index. Moreover, based on expert opinion, barriers were also identified, that hinders the
adaptability and promotion of resilient land use practices in Pakistan. From the study, it is
concluded that spatial planning, zoning and management is an important tool of resilient city
development. Among all cities it was analyzed that Peshawar city has the most regulatory
indicators available in its land use policies, whereas in Charsadda has the least numbers of
these regulatory indicators embedded in their policies. Lack of resources, professional
unawareness, lack of regulation and monitoring and rapid change in government officials are
recorded as the key barriers for the lack of implementation of resilient land use policies
