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Author : Jeroen Aerts
Release : 2009
Genre : City planning
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Book Synopsis Connecting Delta Cities by : Jeroen Aerts
Download or read book Connecting Delta Cities written by Jeroen Aerts. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At present, more than 50% of the entire world population lives in cities. According to the United Nations more than two-thirds of the world's large cities are vulnerable to rising sea levels, exposing millions of people to the risk of extreme floods and storms. Within the coming 30 years, the United Nations project that the number of people living in cities will increase to 60% of the world's population, resulting in even more people living in highly exposed areas. Both scientists and policy makers have addressed the issue of adapting to the challenge of climate change, and both call for embedding long term scenarios in city planning and investments in all sectors. Based on estimations of costs of estimations, it appears that investing in adaptation now would save money in the long term. This book shows the different aspects of climate adaptation. It is an independent investigation of comparative adaptation problems and progress in the cities of Rotterdam, New York and Jakarta. In this regard, each city faces different challenges; one of the lessons of the Connecting Delta Cities initiative is that while cities will follow adaptation paths that may differ, sometimes substantially, each city can learn from the others.
Author : Karen L. Wilson
Release : 1981
Genre : Egypt
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Book Synopsis Cities of the Delta by : Karen L. Wilson
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Author : Peter C Bosselmann
Release : 2018-04-19
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions by : Peter C Bosselmann
Download or read book Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions written by Peter C Bosselmann. This book was released on 2018-04-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Richly illustrated in color with detailed diagrams, models, photographs and sketches, the book is written for students, scholars and practitioners of environmental planning, and designers who need to respond to the future form of cities in light of climate change. For the professions shaping the physical world of cities and regions, the challenge is not only one of designing physical geometries but of social consequences.
Author : Karen L. Wilson
Release : 1981
Genre : Egypt
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Book Synopsis Cities of the Delta by : Karen L. Wilson
Download or read book Cities of the Delta written by Karen L. Wilson. This book was released on 1981. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
