Resilience Assessment and Evolution of Western Provincial Capital Cities

Abstract

With the gradual transformation of urban development and construction mode from extensive extension type to intensive connotation type, the construction of western provincial capitals with poor resistance ability and weak development and innovation ability is faced with huge challenges. In addition, the research on urban resilience is still in its initial stage, and there is no recognized index system for evaluating urban resilience, so it is difficult to conduct empirical research. Therefore, in order to promote the construction of urban resilience in the western region of China, an urban resilience index system suitable for western cities was constructed from four aspects of economic resilience, facility resilience, ecological resilience and human-oriented resilience to evaluate the urban resilience level in the western region during 2005-2018. The results show that: from the perspective of the temporal and spatial evolution of urban resilience in western China, the urban development in this region is not stable, and the characteristics of different urban resilience subsystems are quite different, and the construction of resilient cities is still in the exploratory stage. Moreover, there are significant differences in resilience levels among western cities, and the gap continues to expand with the passage of time. It is suggested to pay attention to the application of economic construction and people-oriented concept from three aspects of policy support, transportation network construction and people-oriented demand, so as to enhance urban resilience and promote urban resilience construction in western China, so as to promote regional sustainable development.