Faced with suddenly natural and man-made disasters, cities exhibit great vulnerability. It has been widely discussed that the resilient urban form is the key to resolve urban vulnerability. Combing the foreign research is great significance to deal with the uncertain disaster risk in the rapid urbanization of China. Based on the theme of resilient urban form, the research progress in foreign countries is tracked from the aspects of concept and characteristics, resilience function and evaluation, and resilience design. The results shows that: The foreign literature focuses on the relationship between urban form and natural disasters, especially in heat wave and flood; Resilient urban form design is an important means to enhance urban resilient, Although no consensus has been reached on the concept of resilient urban form, but a preliminary consensus has been reached on its attribute characteristics, which are mainly reflected in connectivity, latency, modularity, adaptability;There are many ways to divide urban form elements, and hierarchical method can better reflect the nested attributes of form elements. In this way, the macro level is divided into urban and regional categories, the medium level is divided into neighborhood, block, plot, open space and street categories, and the micro level is divided into buildings and sites categories; The paper analyzes the resilience performance of form elements from the perspective of layout, type, scale and shape in macro, from the perspective of overall city scale, urban grade scale, development mode and functional agglomeration mode; from the perspective of neighborhood modularization, neighborhood density, land mix, plot scale, urban block scale, open space shape and scale, street network mode and design; from the perspective of micro, the paper analyzes the resilience performance of form elements from the perspective of layout, type, scale and shape; The evaluation index system of morphological elements toughness is usually constructed based on the standards of resilient cities. Especially,there are many results of using centrality and connectivity indexes to evaluate the resilience of road network form elements; The focus of resilient design for form elements lies in harmony with nature, diversity, redundancy, modularity, spatial heterogeneity, connectivity and so on. From the results, it can be seen that China's future research should focus on constructing a comprehensive research framework for resilient urban form, enriching and expanding the resilience assessment methods and technologies of form elements, and paying attention to the spatial heterogeneity of form elements.