COVID-19 worsened urban slum dwellers' pre-existing vulnerabilities. Maintaining WHO-suggested physical distancing/isolation made planning more challenging in slums. The scenarios hint at the urgency to investigate whether these resource-scarce communities – already susceptible to climate change, poverty, health services, infrastructure, and space constraints, could build resilience against COVID-19. What lack of resources/assets made communities vulnerable there, and what adaptation measures were taken? What planning/management practices were adopted there, and to what extent could WHO's IPC guidelines (on transmission prevention and control) be followed? Findings show that pre-COVID economic, infrastructural, and health-related issues had affected slum dwellers' COVID-time vulnerabilities. While poor infrastructure and sanitation, informal employment, livelihood diversity, superstition, and comorbidities remained the key ‘internal’ issues, lack of institutional preparedness and safety-net programs, discontinued municipal services and inaccessible/untrustworthy healthcare services and corruption/bias/non-coordination in beneficiary selection remained the key ‘external’ issues. Information sharing, openness to pandemic knowledge, and active participation in awareness/training programs have been the most adopted measures. Aid schemes, despite criticisms, saved dwellers from starvation. Therefore, this proved to be a critical coping element. However, NGOs systematic monetary aid gave dwellers the most flexibility in spending. On top, NGOs proved to be the most vital external stakeholder in all sectors except for built environment/planning. To increase adaptive capacity, scopes remain in maximizing the use of community infrastructure in future events. Simultaneously, spatial aspects, alongside the non-spatial, seemed crucial in tackling complex poverty profiles, resource-scarcity, and vulnerabilities of slums. Findings are based on NGO BRAC's existing dataset and fieldwork between April–August 2020 on 29 slums in Khulna, Bangladesh, using a qualitative methodology. The study contributes to a growing body of knowledge and practice on resilient planning for COVID-19 (and similar future pandemics), especially for slums, while addressing its overlooked spatial dimensions.

COVID-19 加剧了城市贫民窟居民原有的脆弱性。保持世卫组织建议的物理距离/隔离使贫民窟的规划更具挑战性。这些情景暗示迫切需要调查这些资源稀缺的社区——已经很容易受到气候变化、贫困、卫生服务、基础设施和空间限制的影响，是否可以建立抵御 COVID-19 的能力。哪些资源/资产的缺乏使那里的社区变得脆弱，采取了哪些适应措施？那里采用了哪些规划/管理做法，在多大程度上可以遵循世卫组织的 IPC 指南（关于传播预防和控制）？调查结果表明，COVID 之前的经济、基础设施和健康相关问题影响了贫民窟居民在 COVID 期间的脆弱性。虽然基础设施和卫生条件差，非正规就业、生计多样性、迷信和合并症仍然是关键的“内部”问题，缺乏机构准备和安全网计划、市政服务中断和无法获得/不可信的医疗服务以及在受益人选择方面的腐败/偏见/不协调仍然是关键的“外部”问题。信息共享、大流行知识的开放以及积极参与意识/培训计划是采用最多的措施。尽管受到批评，援助计划使居民免于挨饿。因此，这被证明是一个关键的应对因素。然而，非政府组织系统的货币援助给予居民最大的支出灵活性。最重要的是，非政府组织被证明是除建筑环境/规划之外的所有部门中最重要的外部利益相关者。为了提高适应能力，范围仍然是在未来的活动中最大限度地利用社区基础设施。同时，空间方面与非空间方面似乎对于解决复杂的贫困状况、资源稀缺性和贫民窟的脆弱性至关重要。调查结果基于非政府组织 BRAC 的现有数据集和 2020 年 4 月至 8 月期间在孟加拉国库尔纳的 29 个贫民窟使用定性方法进行的实地调查。该研究有助于为 COVID-19（以及类似的未来流行病）的弹性规划提供越来越多的知识和实践，尤其是针对贫民窟，同时解决其被忽视的空间维度。调查结果基于非政府组织 BRAC 的现有数据集和 2020 年 4 月至 8 月期间在孟加拉国库尔纳的 29 个贫民窟使用定性方法进行的实地调查。该研究有助于为 COVID-19（以及类似的未来流行病）的弹性规划提供越来越多的知识和实践，尤其是针对贫民窟，同时解决其被忽视的空间维度。调查结果基于非政府组织 BRAC 的现有数据集和 2020 年 4 月至 8 月期间在孟加拉国库尔纳的 29 个贫民窟使用定性方法进行的实地调查。该研究有助于为 COVID-19（以及类似的未来流行病）的弹性规划提供越来越多的知识和实践，尤其是针对贫民窟，同时解决其被忽视的空间维度。