“resilience”The origin of the word can be traced back to Latin“resilio”It refers to the ability to restore the original state. The evolutionary trajectory of this concept,It's actually a sceneThe cognitive revolution of projecting human psychological resilience onto urban systems，Its processThe growth trajectory of covert life forms from stress response to mental maturity reveals the evolution of human intelligence in dealing with uncertainty.

twentycenturyfiftyageThe engineering resilience thinking is essentially a mechanistic urban cognition.pass throughEnhance the robustness of infrastructure to resist disasters，This linear defense logic is like the stress response of organisms, attempting to use absolute physical barriers to counteract natural forces. This one-way defense strategy is similar to the primitive psychological defense mechanism，Although it can resist disasters to a certain extent, it lacks flexibility and adaptability.

The Third World Conference on Disaster ReductionSecretary General Ban Ki moon's speech

one thousand nine hundred and seventy-threeIn the year,Canadian ecologist Holin introduced the concept of resilience into the field of ecology and proposed“Ecological resilience”Theory. Unlike engineering resilience that emphasizes static balance, ecological resilience focuses on the dynamic balance characteristics of ecosystems.The manifestation of ecosystems in the face of disturbances“Creative adaptation”——Not a simple restoration, but throughAdaptive restructuring forms a new stable structureSimilar to the cognitive restructuring mechanism in human psychological resilience. This dynamic balance view shifts the logic of urban defense from“restitution”Upgrade to“Evolutionary rebirth”This marks the beginning of human understanding of the self-organizing intelligence of complex systems.

The wave of globalization has pushed the resilience proposition to a higher dimension. When urban systems break through physical boundaries and become multidimensional networks interwoven with technology, society, and ecology, the connotation of resilience undergoes a qualitative change.one thousand nine hundred and ninety-fouryearworldThe disaster reduction conference will be held for the first time“Resilient City”Conceptualized as the system's resilience to disasters,two thousand and twoyearYike City-Local Sustainable Development Association（ICLEI）Introduce the topic of "urban resilience" into research on cities and disaster prevention.This cognitive transformation reflects humanityfollow“Post disaster first aid”arrive“Risk immunity”The Minddevelop.

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In depth analysis of the development trajectory of resilient cities is actually decoding the evolutionary code of human collective psychological resilience. The evolution of urban systems follows a triple transition in the cognition of living organisms: the primary stage of stress defense corresponds to engineering resilience, which resists risks through rigid structures; The cognitive resilience during the evolutionary stage corresponds to ecological resilience, developing adaptive regulatory mechanisms; The emergence of high-level wisdom corresponds to the resilience of modern cities, forming a society－technology－The ability of ecological co evolution. The essence of urban resilience is the spatial projection of group psychological resilience, and each breakthrough at each stage corresponds to the cognitive elevation of human uncertainty.

When the cityHaving resilience psychology,Start creative restructuring like an ecosystem——When disaster disturbances disrupt the original balance, they no longer cling to the restoration of physical form, but instead build a more adaptable new steady state based on their own geographical genes, social texture, and technological innovation through dynamic adaptation，This cognitive leap enables each city to draw a unique resilience map，Complete the iteration of urban civilization in risk immunity.