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- As cities keep growing and expanding, they become more vulnerable to climate change and directly and indirectly related disturbances. Thus increasing urban resilience is now a primary goal in planning and management of cities. Urban resilience depends on protecting biodiversity and providing habitats (ecological resilience), managing water sustainably (water resilience), reducing the effects of heat island and heat waves in the city (climate resilience), and assuring human health and social cohesion (social resilience). In addition, the resilience of cities is not just about solving single problems against climate change and related disturbances or achieving a single goal. To build urban resilience, urban green spaces must be planned and designed with appropriate criteria and principles to contribute to an interconnected and well-managed green network. This chapter examines some key components and dimensions to meet the needs for resilient cities and discusses some possible pathways toward urban resilience.