The rain and flood disasters caused by the global warming have seriously affected the development of cities and society. It is an important issue of the urban development, through the spatial planning and the infrastructure constructions, to comprehensively improve the city's resistance to rain and flood disasters. This paper reviews the origination and the development of the concept of the urban resilience, where the rain flood resilience is regarded as the key point of the construction of a resilient city. Based on the existing design theory and practice of the water system at home and abroad, it is proposed that the construction of the resilient city with rainwater and flood toughness should put the infrastructure of the municipal water supply and drainage in consideration in the existing urban pattern while planning the spatial layout of the water washing. The actual cases of the urban and rural spatial pattern, the landscape system and the infrastructure in the Netherlands are specially analyzed, and some suggestions are made for the construction of the rain and flood resilience city.

climate change  /  rain and flood resilience  /  resilience city  /  infrastructure  /  water system design