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Journal of Chinese
Architecture and Urbanism Urban resilience in civil engineering

specific research question. In this research, a systematic lacked identifiable authors. To ensure the inclusion of recent
review of articles on resilient cities was conducted using research, only papers published between 2014 and 2024 were
the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and considered. In addition, only English-language documents
Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) 2020 framework. To establish a in journal article format were included in the final dataset.
robust foundation for analysis, the evaluation of selected Following this screening process, 485 records were excluded,
articles was guided by De Genaro Chiroli et al. (2023). This leaving 1,859 articles for further review. Abstracts were then
study leverages the ISO 37123 technical standard and the examined to assess the relevance and contextual fit of each
sustainability tripod as a framework to explore resilience article, marking the beginning of the selection phase.
in urban governance and disaster recovery strategies. During the systematic reading stage, articles were
It uses specific criteria to select and assess studies with evaluated based on their relevance and citation count,
notable impacts (Figure 1). The systematic review process considering their year of publication. Of the 1,859 articles,
was structured into three phases: identification, screening, a total of 292 were deemed eligible for full-text analysis.
and inclusion (De Genaro Chiroli et al., 2023). This selection was conducted by integrating bibliometric
In the first stage, Scopus and Web of Science were analysis (quantitative) to assess citation impact and content
selected as the primary databases for the research. Articles analysis (qualitative) to evaluate thematic relevance.
were retrieved using the following search syntax: “urban Ultimately, 48 articles were cited in this work.
resilience” OR “resilient cities” OR “sustainable buildings” Figure 2 summarizes the methodological approach,
AND “innovation.” Both databases were searched using this including the research questions addressed, the databases
combination of keywords. Once identified, the search results used, and the criteria applied for article selection.
were processed using the Mendeley Reference Manager
software (Elsevier, Netherlands) to consolidate records and 3. Findings and discussion
remove duplicates, as well as documents that did not meet the To address the five research questions presented in
search criteria. At this stage, 133 duplicate documents were Section 1, the 292 reviewed papers were categorized into
excluded from the analysis, along with 27 documents that five major areas of urban resilience: resilient infrastructure

Figure 1. PRISMA flow diagram
Source: Diagram by the authors.

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