Adaptive Urban Transformation

Adaptive Urban Transformation

Landscape art & architecture

This open access book provides a cross-sectoral, integrative and multi-scale design and planning approach for adaptive urban transformation of fast urbanising deltas, taking the Pearl River Delta (China) as a case study. Deltaic areas are among the most promising regions in the world. Their strategic location and superior quality of their soils are core factors supporting both human development and the rise of these regions as global economic hubs. At the same time, however, deltas are extremely vulnerable to multiple threats from both climate change and urbanisation. These include an increased flood risk combined with the resulting loss of ecological and social-cultural values. To ensure a more sustainable future for these areas, spatial strategies are needed to strengthen resilience, i.e. help the systems to cope with their vulnerabilities as well as enhance their capacity to overcome natural and artificial threats.

Nijhuis, Steffen (editor)
Sun, Yimin (editor)
Lange, Eckart (editor)

https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/63959/1/978-3-030-89828-1.pdf

Springer Nature

2023

Baihaqi

Creative Commons

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English

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