Swarming Landscapes The Art of Designing For Climate Adaptation /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Roggema, Rob (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Advances in Global Change Research, 48
• Subjects: Geography.; Climate change.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Landscape architecture.; Human geography.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Climate Change Management and Policy.; Landscape Architecture.; Human Geography.

This book advocates a fresh approach to planning that anticipates, rather than reacts to, the changes in climate currently in process. Today’s spatial planning procedures rely on historical evidence instead of preparing for factors that by definition lie in the future, yet which are relatively uncon...

Table of Contents:

• Contents: Preface
• Introduction
• 1. The Difficulties to Design for Climate Adaptation
• 2. Turbulence and Uncertainty
• 3. Complexity Theory, Spatial Planning and Adaptation to Climate Change
• 4. Transition and Transformation
• 5. Networks as Driving Force for Climate Design
• 6. Swarm Planning Theory
• 7. Swarm Methodology
• 8. Swarming Landscapes
• 9. Cities as Organisms
• 10. The Best City
• Index.