Book Excerpts

Explores the spatial and social dynamics of cities worldwide, including a section that focuses on Rebuild by Design as written by Rebuild Pr…

Discusses what games and play can reveal about contemporary processes of urbanization and examines how gaming, in models like the Resilient …

Explores how communities around the U.S. have built local climate resilience, with a Foreword from Amy Chester, Managing Director of Rebuild…

SeaCities: Focuses on presenting Water as Leverage proactive integral design strategies in three Asian cities: Khulna, Chennai and Semarang.…

Provides insight into different climate change adaptation plans in the United States that use participatory long-term resilience planning an…

Analysis of the translation process of 'polder' as it played out in Water as Leverage for Asian Cities, a Dutch urban design initiative that…

Discusses the design of the Blue Dunes which was based on the Dutch approach. The approach was antithetical to the small-scale, stakeholder …

Climate Change Adaptation in North America: Focuses on the ways of balancing ‘project risks' and ‘global risks’ in order to successfully imp…