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This chapter addresses two related questions: Can urban design provide a domain for concrete projects, processes, and practices that ground the abstract concept of resilience, creating urban places that are more just and environmentally sound? Similarly, can a refined focus on resilience allow scholars and practitioners of urban design to synthesize social, ecological, and aesthetic analysis through disciplinary practices that are more flexible and more attuned to the concerns of the most vulnerable members of urban societies? In addressing these questions, the chapter outlines parallel “green” and “gray” traditions of “resilience” and “urban design,” and draws examples from emblematic projects in cities of the Global North and Global South, focusing on three river delta cities: New Orleans, Rotterdam, and Dhaka. We outline a series of principles intended to simultaneously ground resilience and refocus urban …