Urban Adaptability Evaluation and the ADI Framework: Pioneering Sustainable, Resilient, and Prosperous Cities

Abstract

The development of cities includes a wide variety of complexities and uncertainties that challenge spatial planners and policymakers. To navigate the intricacies, there's a growing exploration of adaptive approaches in response to dynamic physical and non-physical factors. This paper argues that urban adaptability evaluation should be standardized to promote sustainability and deduce a series of elements on spatio-functional configurations and the capacity building of local participants. This paper depicts the urban blueprint as a complex adaptive system, explores what goals and issues may comprise and how they can be related to planning, establishes an Adaptability Index (ADI) evaluation framework, and derives the spatial and strategic samples. These facilitate tailored planning for more adaptive cities. This study introduces methodological metrics to assist future planners and policymakers in evaluating and addressing the strategic and adaptive urban planning and design. Additionally, the study provides practical criteria for environmentally and socially responsible, healthy, and prosperous built environments throughout design, construction, and operation.