Urban resilience typically refers to the built environment and how cities can adapt to climate change and other natural factors. Studies on urban morphology reveal that the foundation of urban development lies in the parceling system, and that urban diversity is, to a large extent, a consequence of the diversity of parcels, which clearly expresses the transformation processes and shows the continuity between people and the territory they inhabit. However, the relationship between the formal qualities of the parceling system and urban resilience has not been extensively studied. This study focuses on investigating the main morphological parameters of the parceling formal quality, developing a method that aims to align them with the key attributes of the urban resilience concept, as defined by global frameworks.
Recent approaches emphasize criteria like robustness, redundancy, integration, reflectiveness, inclusivity, and flexibility to address environmental, social, and economic challenges. This paper shifts the understanding of urban resilience beyond a focus on buildings (materials and technologies) to incorporate the parceling system as a crucial genetic structuring element of settlements. The advance of exclusively quantitative tools and methods in the measurement of urban form risks disregarding the cultural dimension of the parceling system, which defines its character not only symbolically but also practically. This paper advances the idea that urban resilience should not be viewed solely as a parametric and technical matter, but as a deeply human aspiration of the urban phenomenon as a whole. Therefore, this method provides a structured way to analyze the formal qualities of parceling grids as a first step in a more comprehensive urban resilience assessment, based on complementary approaches that incorporate socio-economic and cultural dynamics.