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Through inter-disciplinary exploratory research with metropolitan planners from Glasgow, Stockholm and Melbourne, this paper synthesizes practitioner insights into how resilience thinking can inform metropolitan planning. The paper identifies three ways resilience thinking can usefully inform metropolitan planning. First, through new metaphors regarding the nature of structural change in linked and complex systems that prioritize change and uncertainty. Second, by providing new frames and tools for analysis of the dynamics of complex social-ecological urban systems are explored and applied. Third, through more adaptive governance for metropolitan planning.