Water City: Practical Strategies for Climate Change

ISBN-13: 9780367425043 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 208 str.

Matthew Bradbury

Opis

Water City offers practical solutions to some of the environmental challenges facing 21stcentury cities as a result of climate change. The dense compact nature of the contemporary city makes it difficult to generate urban resilience to the effects of climate change, particularly coastal and pluvial flooding.

Spis treści

Lists of figures; List of tables; Author Biography; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; - Greenfield Case Studies; - Whenuapai; - Furong New Town; - Brownfield Case Studies; - Wynyard Quarter; - Xinglong; - Hazelwood Green; - Oxford; Chapter Five

O autorze

Matthew Bradbury is an associate professor at the School of Architecture, Te Whare Wānanga o Wairaka, Aotearoa/New Zealand and leader of the Masters of Landscape Architecture programme. Matthew’s research explores the intersection of landscape practice and urban design in the development of a new urban model.