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oapen-20.500.12657-639592023-07-15T02:48:25Z Adaptive Urban Transformation Nijhuis, Steffen Sun, Yimin Lange, Eckart Resilient Urban Planning and Design Sustainable Urban Deltas Multiscale Urban Landscape Design Stakeholder Engagement Inclusive Delta Urbanism Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning Urban Politics bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AM Architecture::AMV Landscape art & architecture bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPH Political structure & processes bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNR Natural disasters 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. The book provides a unique approach that integrates research in urban landscape systems, territorial governance and visualisation techniques that will help to achieve more integrated and resilient deltas. Based on an assessment of the dynamics of change regarding the transformational cycles of natural and urban landscape elements, eco-dynamic regional design strategies are explored to reveal greater opportunities for the exploitation of natural and social-cultural factors within the processes of urban development. 2023-07-14T15:43:19Z 2023-07-14T15:43:19Z 2023 book ONIX_20230714_9783030898281_38 9783030898281 9783030898274 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63959 eng The Urban Book Series application/pdf n/a 978-3-030-89828-1.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-030-89828-1 Springer Nature Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-030-89828-1 10.1007/978-3-030-89828-1 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 9783030898281 9783030898274 Springer International Publishing 314 Cham open access
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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. The book provides a unique approach that integrates research in urban landscape systems, territorial governance and visualisation techniques that will help to achieve more integrated and resilient deltas. Based on an assessment of the dynamics of change regarding the transformational cycles of natural and urban landscape elements, eco-dynamic regional design strategies are explored to reveal greater opportunities for the exploitation of natural and social-cultural factors within the processes of urban development.
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