1st Edition
Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions
Introduction Part I: The San Francisco Estuary and Inland Delta Chapter One: Water, Land and Places, the origins of urban form in the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Two: The Bay Area’s Metropolitan Landscape, a Dispersed Metropolis Chapter Three: Causes and Consequences of Climate Change for the San Francisco Bay Area Part II: The Pearl River Delta Chapter One: The Pearl River Delta as a Cultural Landscape, New Life for a Traditional Water Village Chapter Two: Whampoa Harbor Chapter Three: Jiangmen, a Historic City Remembers its Center and the Urban Expansion on Pazhou Island in Guangzhou Part III: The Dutch Delta Chapter One: The Making of the Dutch Delta Chapter Two: An Archipelago of Cities Chapter Three: Contemporary Examples and Strategies for the Future Conclusion
Biography
Peter C. Bosselmann is a Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, where he taught at the College of Environmental Design. He held professorships in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and City Planning that spanned four decades. He is a founding member and long-time Co-Chair of the Master of Urban Design Program, and the former Chair of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. Adaptations of Metropolitan Landscapes in Delta Regions is the third book in a trilogy on urban design research that he began in 1998 with Representations of Places followed in 2008 by Urban Transformations: Understanding City Design and Form.
'In Adaptations Bosselmann uses a case study structure to investigate the urban history, present-day development patterns, and design recommendations for the San Francisco Bay Area; the Pearl River Delta in southern China; and the Rhine, Maas, and Scheldt Delta in the Netherlands. This work is especially important to discourses of tradition in the built environment, because it takes a wide historical view of each region, investigating the entire record of human intervention in these landscapes throughout history. Designed as mechanisms of trade, economy and transportation, control of these regions has long reflected vectors of power and domination. And Bosselmann’s exploration of these forces offers valuable information to
policymakers, engineers, scientists, planners, architects, and landscape architects who will play important roles in rethinking them and visualizing them as part of future resilient built environments.' - Lyndsey Deaton, Clemson University, from 'Traditional Dwelling and Settlements Review 34.2
