Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in Urban Infrastructure Planning

Abstract

This investigation examines how city planners can equip roads, bridges, and sewers to withstand the harsher weather that climate change now promises. By reviewing scholarship from 2000 onward, the author catalogs well-tested tactics that actually strengthen urban defenses. An integrated tactic blends vulnerability mapping with nature-based fixes, resilient design codes, and active meters to let governance adjust in real time. Early results show that layering green roofs, urban wetlands, and cooperative ordinances sharply boosts a metropolis resilience to heat waves and flash floods. In short, waiting for crises is risky; place-specific planning today is the clearest route to cities that are both sustainable and liveable tomorrow.