Discusses what games and play can reveal about contemporary processes of urbanization and examines how gaming, in models like the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge, can help us understand the dynamics underlying interurban competition in city development.
Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and Ecological City Read More »
Explores how communities around the U.S. have built local climate resilience, with a Foreword from Amy Chester, Managing Director of Rebuild.
Water: Focuses on the role of international resilience programs and investigates how these programs can enable institutional transformation.
SeaCities: Focuses on presenting Water as Leverage proactive integral design strategies in three Asian cities: Khulna, Chennai and Semarang. Through the three projects, the chapter shows how several water management measures on different scales can be combined in integral design proposals that, in addition to addressing climate change, also improve the urban quality and liveability
Water as Leverage: Design Studies for Khulna, Chennai and Semarang Read More »
Sustainability: Addresses the contemporary debate on urban and environmental regeneration, investigating the need to establish new criteria to implement the defence of coastal ecosystems by climate problems. It looks at coastal vulnerabilities, starting with the environmental fragility of flooding, as an opportunity to regenerate waterfront ecosystems.
Provides insight into different climate change adaptation plans in the United States that use participatory long-term resilience planning and collaborative design processes.
Designing for Resilience in Rich Coastal Cities (and Beyond) Read More »
Examines the politics around climate change response strategies in three cities—New York, Jakarta, and Rotterdam— and the mobilization of grassroots activists to fight the perceived injustices and oversights of these plans.
Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice. Read More »
Theory and Society: Provides an explanation for how increased public participation can paradoxically translate into limited democratic decision-making in urban settings. Using an in-depth case study of one of the largest coastal protection projects in the world, the East Side Coastal Resilience (ESCR) Project, and drawing on global scholarship on participation, this article narrates the
Architectural Design: Our era of ecological resilience and ecocide requires much more holistic and inclusive thinking about social, civic space. Kate Orff outlines the proposal for Alameda Creek, which removes the defensive infrastructures currently restraining the natural forces of the San Francisco Bay Area with the aim of reconnecting its urban and rural ecologies.
What is design now? unmaking the landscape Read More »
eTropic: Analyzes the complexity of policy transfer processes in the context of contemporary policy making in response to climate change. The paper further examines what constitutes a successful policy transfer process by using Semarang, a tropical city located in Indonesia, as a case study.
Climate resilience and policy transfer in Semarang City, Indonesia Read More »
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