Overview
- Integrates knowledge of urban landscape systems, territorial governance, and visualization techniques
- Interlinks social and natural systems, offers practical tips in establishing resilience in urbanising delta regions
- Includes several chapters on multi-scale and socio-ecological inclusive urban planning and design
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Spatial Strategy and Design
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Stakeholder Participation and Visualization
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Socio-ecological Perspectives
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Adaptive Urban Transformation
Book Subtitle: Urban Landscape Dynamics, Regional Design and Territorial Governance in the Pearl River Delta, China
Editors: Steffen Nijhuis, Yimin Sun, Eckart Lange
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89828-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89827-4Published: 02 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89830-4Published: 02 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-89828-1Published: 01 July 2023
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 314
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 134 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape Architecture, Governance and Government, Natural Hazards