Waterfront Regeneration in a Time of Climate Change

Recent Japanese and International Experiences
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-98134-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

The current climate crisis and the rapid transformation of the natural environments will inevitably pose a threat to human settlements around the world. This book explores possible local strategies and global solutions in the safeguarding of coastal cities and the often-neglected urban waterfronts, in terms of a more effective integration with the city, whilst paying attention to the mitigation of the risks related to climate change.

Designers, administrators and engineers need to start developing various scenarios and possible solutions to tackle the inevitable transformation which is currently unfolding. This edited book contains essays which discuss several themes related to the effects of climate change on waterfronts, looking at Japan’s experience and other international case studies. Collectively, they provide a multi-faceted analysis of selected projects and relevant urban experiences and practices which address issues such as the environmental disruption and the need for more efficient and sustainable forms of regeneration and urban renewal practice for the waterfronts.

The volume will appeal architects, planners, geographers, and general readers with an interest in landscape design and social science in an international context, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in the disciplines of built environment.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pernice, Raffaele

Yaguchi, Tetsuya

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Hochwasserschutz (Bauingenieurwesen)
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gestaltung, Darstellung, Bautechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Ökologische Aspekte in der Architektur
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Carola Hein

Introduction

Pernice Raffaele, Tetsuya Yaguchi

Part 1 - Water and the City in the early 21st Century. Architectural and Urban Dimensions: Case Studies Japan

1)    A Metabolist Utopia in the Crisis of a Flooded Society

Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi, Alice Covatta

2)    Urban life on the Water. Concepts, Models and Prototypes for Marine Habitats in Japan 1958–2025

Raffaele Pernice

3)    Tokyo Waterfront Urban Planning and Disaster Resilience: An Unforgettable Memory

George Kurumado

4)    Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning and Consensus Building in Riverfront Neighbourhoods through Risk Communication. A Case of “Nige Chizu” Creation in Totsuka District, Shinjuku, Tokyo

Tetsuya Yaguchi

5)    Resilience in Tokyo

William Galloway

6)    From Shipyards to Skylines: The Evolution of Yokohama's Waterfront

Heide Imai

7)    Waterfront Restoration in Yokohama after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923:Focusing on the Reconstruction of Yokohama Harbor and Canals

Yunlian Chen

Part 2 - Water and the City in the early 21st Century. Architectural and Urban Dimensions: Case Studies International

8)    Venice Floods: an Urban Morphology Perspective

Paola Favaro

9)    Waterfront Regeneration and Vitality in Hong Kong Central

Hee Sun ‘Sunny’ Choi

10) Affordable Floating Communities: How can Human Life on Water be made Attractive and Socially Sustainable for Larger Communities?

Harry den Hartog

11) Small-Scale Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Flood Mitigation in the Tropical High-density Cities: A Case of Bangkok's Polder Areas

Theeraporn Premchaiswadi

12) San Francisco Waterfront Resilience Program Draft Plan

Adam Varat, Luiz Barata

13) Waterfronts as Shared Heritage: Balancing Heritage Conservation and Climate Change Mitigation in Metro Vancouver’s waterfront areas

Yiting Pan

14) Climate Adaptation in Sydney Waterfront Planning Management

Nan Ye, Jing Li

15) Exit the Waterfront. Enter Coastal Landscape Design: A Case Study of the Mekong Delta

Bruno De Meulder, Kelly Shannon

16) Reformulating Peri-urban Landscape Guidelines to Maintain Stormwater Management Capacity in Low-lying Developing Cities: a case of Phnom Penh

Sokuncharia Srey

Afterword

Helen Lochhead

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Raffaele Pernice is a licensed architect and Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia. An urban and architectural historian by training, he holds a PhD in Architecture from Waseda University, Japan and a M.Arch from the University IUAV of Venice, Italy.

Tetsuya Yaguchi is Professor at Waseda University, Japan where he conducts theoretical research and leads urban design initiatives aimed at sustaining and enhancing the built environment. In addition to his academic work, Mr. Yaguchi actively conducts pre-disaster planning workshops for communities in Tokyo and develops disaster education programs for younger generations.