The approach for resilient adaptive capacity requires a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of available practice toward mitigation and sustainability under flood risk in the urban centers. We ascertain that this calls for swift restorative actions to amend the ecology damages with the incorporation of ‘resilience’ elements as available methods of environmentally sensitive, innovative practices. The theoretical framework includes criteria pertaining to sustainability, resilience and adaptive practice to expose the core lessons learned from the flood-prone plateau Taipei. The semi-structured interview documented 20 respondents and focused on their experience and resilience thinking under climate change, affecting their personal engagement with climate change. The flood resilience thinking corresponds to a place specific model to sustains its social resilience and helps to inform on how to best share about mitigating climate change. Given this, the resilience capacity stems from the local adaptive learning. In addition, the study ascertained that in the face of climate risks, the deconstructed criteria are based on (1) adaptive measures is aided and enhanced by visualization model, since what we seen is what we gather in perception forming; (2) information gathered for risk impact assessment differ among the residents; (3) resilience capacity could be raised by effective communication tool and (4) social media interactive ability reflecting actual time scenario emerging as an effective mean in mitigating flood risks. At the same time, being feasible for amelioration of our urban microclimate condition, opportunity and threats; together, they contribute toward the sustainability for the future of urbanity.
