1st Edition
Waterfront Regeneration in a Time of Climate Change Recent Japanese and International Experiences
List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Foreword: Carola Hein
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Raffaele Pernice, 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: Building on Change
William Galloway
6) From Shipyards to Skylines: An overview about 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) Floating Communities: How can Human Life on Water be made more Attractive and Socially Sustainable for Larger Communities?
Harry den Hartog
11) Small-Scale Green Infrastructure for Mitigating Flooding in Tropical High-density Cities: A Case of Bangkok's Polder Area
Theeraporn Premchaiswadi
12) San Francisco Waterfront Resilience Program Draft Plan
Adam Varat, Luiz Barata
13) Waterfronts as Shared Heritage: Conserving Vancouver’s False Creek in the context of climate change adaptation
Yiting Pan
14) Climate Adaptation in Sydney Waterfront Planning Management – making developments adaptive to sea level rise
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
Biography
Raffaele Pernice is a licensed architect and Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism in the Faculty of Arts, Design & 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 MArch 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 programmes for younger generations.
“This is a relevant and surprising book which presents and compares some policies and practices of waterfront regeneration in Tokyo, Sydney, Shanghai, and elsewhere. It shows an international perspective with several original contributions of young scholars and more experienced academics.”
Xiaoming Zhu, Professor, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai.
“As the world faces the onslaught of intensified environmental calamities, Waterfront Regeneration in a Time of Climate Change: Recent Japanese and International Experiences presents a timely, must-read compendium of perspectives to address these contemporary challenges through rigorous, multi-disciplinary analysis by architects, urban planners and designers, and architectural historians.”
Ken Tadashi Oshima, Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Washington, Seattle.
"Building on Japan's extensive experience in water urbanism and flood management, Waterfront Regeneration in a Time of Climate Change is an ambitious publication that bridges the gap between research, planning, and design for resilient coastal cities."
Grulois Geoffrey, Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Université libre de Bruxelles.
"This compelling collection of contemporary and historic essays leaves no doubt about the profound environmental, social and governance challenges confronting waterside cities in the era of global warming. Its many insights and ideas about precarity and preparedness underline the salience of transformative, grounded and inclusive long term strategies transcending business-as-usual."
Robert Freestone, Professor, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney.
