Based on the concept of "resilient city", the paper constructs an idea of resilient urban public space and explains its connotation and characteristics. Combined with the anti-epidemic measures of various countries in the COVID-19, it summarizes a system of "technical resilience-institutional resilience" of urban public space. It is shown that the technical resilience depends on healthy planning interventions, including integrating the health impact assessment into the whole process of planning, improving the planning of urban emergency service capacity, establishing a resilient public space system made up of "hub-nodeemergency flow", and coordinating the emergency space of "integration of peace and epidemic". Moreover, urban public space's institutional resilience depends on sound and smart social governance, including establishing the emergency response system, matching the emergency responsibilities, rights, capabilities of grass-roots communities, improving laws and regulations and other policy tools, and applying intelligent platforms for prevention and control. Technical resilience and institutional resilience can establish a new paradigm for urban public spaces to respond to public health emergencies.

urban public space  /  public health emergencies  /  resilient city  /  planning intervention  /  social governance