ABSTRACT:- The problem of cities is very complex in the 21st century and needs to be addressed in the long term strategy with dynamic solutions. The following major problems of the urban centres direly need robust research work on the subject. The growing urban population of Pakistan in two major cities increased population density creates health, hygiene, illiteracy and unemployment in the urban centres at large. The imbalance of resource capabilities and weak local governance system with insufficient stakeholder participation in the institutional reforms and inadequate water resource management creates several issues in urban centres. Poor waste disposal, pollution, and human activities lead to ecosystem degradation unsafe buildings and decaying infrastructure. It was during the last 40 years, between 1950 and 1990; the urban population of the world increased ten-fold, from 200 million to more than 2 billion. Because of the above robust studies on the urban sustainability to face challenges created in urban centers are focused on Karachi and Lahore as part of my post-doc studies and 234 samples were collected in the study. The study employs a cross-sectional field survey method to assess urban sustainability, resilience and liveability in cities and smart city design. In the cross-sectional field survey method, relevant data is collected at one point in time by gathering information through a piloted questionnaire. The research combines both qualitative and quantitative methods since these two methods simultaneously help tackle the research problem under study. The findings are very useful for future planning on urban sustainability, resilience and livability in the best public interest and suggest that new growth centres should be used to reduce the burden on urban centres’ complex issues as an alternative strategic approach in the best public interest.

KEYWORDS: Sustainability, Resilience, Liveability and Smart Cities
Note: This paper is part of My Post-doctoral studies supported by the European Scientific Institute and focused on 10 cities but the focus of the paper is on only two cities of Pakistan surveyed by the Author as his assignments during the study.