Integrated urban flood design in the United States and the Netherlands

Spatial design integrates social, cultural, economic, and political perspectives with natural site conditions and man-made construction to plan for sustainable urban development. The current flood-risk-related challenges induced by climate change place pressure on designing cities in which both natural and man-made conditions can be imbalanced....

Project Summary A4 - Spatial adaptation in coastal environments: New possible synergies between flood protection infrastructure and urban landscape design

Spatial adaptation in coastal environments: New possible synergies between flood protection infrastructure and urban landscape design

The current flood risk-related challenges induced by climate change<br/>place pressure on designing urban areas where natural and man-made<br/>conditions can be imbalanced. Today, flood risk is mostly managed to<br/>reduce the probability of flood events. However, the engineered probability<br/>approach to flood risk management might not always...

Sustainable and Resilient Coastal Cities (SARCC): Interdisciplinary Flood Protection Strategies for Southend-on-Sea (UK)

In a world influenced by climate change and consequently sea-level rise, extreme floods are expected to become more frequent in the future, representing a serious threat for riverine and coastal settlements. Therefore, flood protection is a large component of climate adaptation and should be closely related to other measures of climate...

Models over time: Waterloopbos and Mississippi River Basin

The development of knowledge about the mechanism in the delta has had a high dependency on projects and techniques available. During the period from 1930 to 1939, there is a consolidation of the achievements and further development of hydraulic engineering techniques, based on model-based and mathematical analyses and prognoses (Schot et al.,...

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Acqua e terra

Integrated coastal flood design strategies: changing paradigm in flood risk management

The relation between the design of the flood protection infrastructure and the design of the urbanscape is the focus of this paper with the question on how these two types of design can consciously affect each other. The text presents the preliminary result of an interdisciplinary research conducted by a team of urban designers and hydraulic...