Learning from Agri-Aquaculture for Multiscale Water-Sensitive Design in the Pearl River Delta

The Pearl River Delta (PRD) is a river dominated floodplain in southeast China. Decreasing space for water, through dike-ring construction, channelization, and urbanization, has led to increased flood risk from river, rain, and sea. To protect from flood risk, a more adaptive urbanization strategy is required; one takes into account a multiscale...

Resilience through aqua-agriculture transformation: Towards a multiscale approach for adaptive landscape development in Pear River Delta

The Pearl River Delta (PRD) is a river dominated floodplain in southeast China. Long known as one of the country’s richest agricultural regions, in recent years it has also become known as one of the world’s most densely urbanized areas. Decreasing space for water through dyke-ring construction, channelization and urbanization has led to...

Historic Religious Identity, Ray Urban Dignity: Searching Planning perspective at the neglected historic religious district to revive the local quality as a promoter of urban cohesion in different scales

Ray as the most historic city in Iran is an example of the neglected district that today religion shaped its identity and spatial configuration. In Fact the rapid growth of urbanization and migration in Tehran after the modernization, resulted polarization that affected on Ray, physically and socially and led to separate Ray from the rest of...