Abstract
<jats:p>This chapter argues that youth disaster resilience should be understood as a relational phenomenon grounded in the socio-spatial and institutional conditions through which young people sustain everyday life. Rather than treating resilience primarily as an individual trait, it examines how resilience emerges from the usability of youth-relevant spaces, the plurality of spatial alternatives, patterned adaptive practices, and forms of governance mediation that enable or constrain social continuity under disruption. Drawing on empirical findings from the Swiss National Science Foundation-funded project Pandemic-resilient Spaces for Sustainable Cities, the chapter analyses how young people in the Zurich region, Switzerland, navigated spatial restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings show that informal and low-threshold spaces, diverse spatial options, and supportive institutional mediation were central to maintaining peer contact, autonomy, retreat, recognition, and everyday routine. These conditions were unevenly distributed and shaped by socio-spatial and household resources. The chapter develops the concepts of , and to specify how youth resilience is organized and differentially made possible in practice. It argues that DRR planning should recognize youth-relevant spaces, spatial plurality, and locally embedded intermediary actors – including youth work – as part of the everyday infrastructures through which equitable resilience is built.</jats:p>