Reviewing the potential of urban safety space theory to enhance urban flood resilience in China
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China's flood-prone cities are stress-testing a bold new framework — Urban Safety Space theory — that fuses IoT sensors and big data to rethink how cities survive disasters in real time.
Urban Safety Space TheoryResilience TheorySociotechnical Systems TheoryComplex Adaptive Systems
Theory Briefing
- Urban Safety Space (USS) theory reframes flood resilience around proactive disaster prevention rather than reactive emergency response.
- China's cities are piloting USS by embedding IoT and big data analytics to enable real-time flood monitoring and management.
- The framework challenges traditional urban planning by treating safety as a dynamic, data-driven spatial property rather than a fixed infrastructure feature.