Bosselmann, Peter C,
Adaptations of the metropolitan landscape in delta regions / by Peter C Bosselmann. - First edition. - 1 online resource (264 pages) : 143 illustrations
chapter Why this book? -- part Part I The San Francisco Estuary and Inland Delta -- chapter 1 Water, Land and Places, the Origins of Urban Form in the / chapter 2 The Bay Area’s Metropolitan Landscape, a Dispersed Metropolis -- chapter 3 Causes and Consequences of Climate Change for the San / part Part II The Pearl River Delta -- chapter 1 The Pearl River Delta as a Cultural Landscape – New Life for a Traditional Water Village -- chapter 2 Whampoa Harbor -- chapter 3 Jiangmen, a Historic City Remembers its Center and the Urban Expansion on Pazhou Island in Guangzhou -- part Part III The Dutch Delta -- chapter 1 The Making of the Dutch Delta -- chapter 2 An Archipelago of Cities – Five Delta Towns -- chapter 3 Contemporary Examples and Strategies for the Future. San Francisco Bay Area -- Francisco Bay Area --
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.
9781315147871
10.4324/9781315147871 doi
City planning--Environmental aspects.
Climatic changes.
Coastal settlements.
Coastal zone management.
Deltas--Social aspects.
Sustainable urban development.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urbanization--California--Delta Region.
Urbanization--China--Pearl River Delta.
Urbanization--Netherlands.
Water levels--Social aspects.
HT241
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Adaptations of the metropolitan landscape in delta regions / by Peter C Bosselmann. - First edition. - 1 online resource (264 pages) : 143 illustrations
chapter Why this book? -- part Part I The San Francisco Estuary and Inland Delta -- chapter 1 Water, Land and Places, the Origins of Urban Form in the / chapter 2 The Bay Area’s Metropolitan Landscape, a Dispersed Metropolis -- chapter 3 Causes and Consequences of Climate Change for the San / part Part II The Pearl River Delta -- chapter 1 The Pearl River Delta as a Cultural Landscape – New Life for a Traditional Water Village -- chapter 2 Whampoa Harbor -- chapter 3 Jiangmen, a Historic City Remembers its Center and the Urban Expansion on Pazhou Island in Guangzhou -- part Part III The Dutch Delta -- chapter 1 The Making of the Dutch Delta -- chapter 2 An Archipelago of Cities – Five Delta Towns -- chapter 3 Contemporary Examples and Strategies for the Future. San Francisco Bay Area -- Francisco Bay Area --
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.
9781315147871
10.4324/9781315147871 doi
City planning--Environmental aspects.
Climatic changes.
Coastal settlements.
Coastal zone management.
Deltas--Social aspects.
Sustainable urban development.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urbanization--California--Delta Region.
Urbanization--China--Pearl River Delta.
Urbanization--Netherlands.
Water levels--Social aspects.
HT241
307.1/216