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Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions (Paperback)
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Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions (Paperback)
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Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions is about
environmental quality and the long term livability of urban areas.
In decades to come, climate change will affect cities everywhere,
but nowhere have the effects of climate change already been felt as
strongly as in low-lying coastal cities, cities located in large
river deltas and near tidal estuaries. This book reflects on the
contribution that spatial planning and urban design can make to a
complex discussion about how city form and landscapes will need to
adapt within metropolitan areas. The book's focus is on the urban
form of three delta regions: the Pearl River Delta in Southern
China; the Rhine, Maas, and Scheldt Delta in the Netherlands; and
the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. The three
regions differ greatly, but despite their different political
systems, history, culture and locations in three different climate
zones, all three regions will be forced to respond to similar
issues that will trigger transformations and adaptations to their
urban form. Richly illustrated in color with detailed diagrams,
models, photographs and sketches, the book is written for students,
scholars and practitioners of environmental planning, and designers
who need to respond to the future form of cities in light of
climate change. For the professions shaping the physical world of
cities and regions, the challenge is not only one of designing
physical geometries but of social consequences.
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