Water City

Practical Strategies for Climate Change

Matthew Bradbury

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Routledge
31 December 2020

The environment

Water City offers practical solutions to some of the environmental challenges facing 21st-century 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.

This book describes a design-led remediation methodology that draws on catchment planning and GIS mapping and analysis to redefine the city as a series of hydrological and ecological systems. Six case studies test the presented methodology, two greenfield and four brownfield sites based in the UK, USA, New Zealand and China. Each case study is illustrated with GIS maps and perspectives. Specific solutions to the environmental problems that will be intensified by climate change are presented.

Water City describes adaptation strategies to help practitioners in the urban landscape tackle these issues and make our cities better places to live. This practical guide is a key read for professionals and stakeholders in landscape architecture, urban design, planning and all those interested in how climate change will affect the future of our cities.

By: Matthew Bradbury
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 450g
ISBN: 9780367425067
ISBN 10: 0367425068
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 31 December 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.