Urban Resilience Strategies: Creating Adaptable and Sustainable Public Spaces Along Riverbanks in Mid-Sized Cities – A Case Study of Kut City

The research uses Kut City as a model to examine urban resilience strategies in designing public spaces along riverbanks in medium-sized cities.It aims to promote sustainability, respond to climate change, and support biodiversity by creating flexible and adaptable public spaces.It also seeks to stimulate economic and recreational activities along the banks of the Tigris River, enhancing the city's quality of life, which can be generalized to other mediumsized cities. Integrating urban resilience with public space design to provide sustainable environments resilient to environmental and social challenges is also an area of exploration.The offered model improves urban resilience and sustainable expansion by developing adaptable spaces for climate change.The model can facilitate societal engagement in public spaces, donating to sustainable urban maturation by developing biodiversity and socialeconomic sustainability.The results revealed the significance of collaboration among the public, private, and local sectors in investing in green infrastructure projects and enriching local environmental sustainability.They also confirmed that enhancing permeability between urban spaces and river banks improves social relations and contributes to devising more sustainable urban environments.The study also recommends adopting flexible urban planning policies to be compatible with future climate change, focusing on allocating land for multifunctional green spaces, enhancing public transportation networks to facilitate access to river banks and safe areas, and improving environmental permeability through green passages that connect river banks to the city center, which enhance the overall comfort for residents and reducing temperatures.