Since 2020, all urban systems have been put to an unprecedented stress test. The triple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on health, economic development and education, along with the increasingly visible effects of climate change force us to rethink urban planning and resilience. Governments are forced to reprioritize budgets. Cities have to reprioritize and balance access to vital urban services. As plans begin for the next generation of urban infrastructure systems, ICDRI’s technical forum on urban resilience focused on ‘understanding and responding to change’. It set the stage for reflection on the processes and instruments of risk-informed urban planning and the role it could play in integrating resilience in short- and long-term infrastructure decisions. The session analyzed how resilience can be factored into the conceptualization, planning, regulation, and management of infrastructure in the context of the overall urban plan. The discussions elaborated on the following points using specific city cases: 1. On setting out long-term resilience objectives in the face of dynamic disruptions. What are the emerging risks from COVID-19 that are compounding the urban resilience problem? 2. The role of systematic changes in frameworks, standards and regulations. Changes and proposed improvements in procedural frameworks to usher in a more dynamic, long-term thinking in infrastructure and urban planning (e.g., land use regulations, timeframes for making plans, knowledge gaps, infrastructure lifecycles, etc.) 3. Planning for unknowns. How is the planning ecosystem equipped to handle risks? (Managing newer insights and projections of development, risks, etc)