Proceedings of the 8th Conf. Int. Forum Urban., A006, doi:10.3390/ifou-A006. 8th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism True Smart and Green City? Conference Proceedings Paper Exploring the User-Driven Implications in Building Urban Resilience for Sustainability Transitions: Lessons From OURS CITIES Global Network Study Cases Lorenzo Chelleri 1, *, Harn Wei Kua 2 , Juan Pablo Rodríguez Sánchez 3 , Kh Md Nahiduzzaman 4 Gladman Thondhlana 5 and Abdullatif Said Abdallah 6 1 GSSI Cities, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Viale F. Cripsi, 7 L’Aquila, Italy 2 Department of Building, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, 4 Architecture Drive, S117566, Singapore 3 Environmental Engineering Research Centre, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia 4 Department of City and Regional Planning, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia 5 Department of Environmental Science, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa 6 Construction Engineering & Management, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail: lorenzo.chelleri@gssi.infn.it Abstract: Smart, green and resilient city paradigms have been mainly promoted through top-down practices and hard infrastructures solutions. However, social networks and community actions have been strengthening the effectiveness of resilience from the ground in many cases. This paper brings at light the key relevance of such socially-driven urban resilience building through bottom up processes by i) situating urban resilience in relation to urban sustainability ii) defining user-driven resilience within urban resilience building frameworks, and iii) highlighting the perceptions and communities roles in building urban user-driven resilience. In order to offer empirical evidences supporting such conceptualization, the paper presents a range of global study cases from OURS CITIES network. The main insights of the paper are that user-driven resilience is still poorly understood and that the same “enablers” for socially-driven urban transition do not work effectively for all the places, but should be framed accordingly to the place cultural values and behaviors.