1st Edition

Water City Practical Strategies for Climate Change

By Matthew Bradbury Copyright 2021
208 Pages 111 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 111 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 111 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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.