Flood-prone cities, prevention, adaptation, resilience. Cities and flooding.
Parentheses editions| N° d'inventaire | 23966 |
| Format | 16.5 X 24 |
| Détails | 288 p., maps, color illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Marseille, 2014 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782863642375 |
European cities, often located along rivers or on seashores, are concerned about their vulnerability to flooding, a risk that is now heightened by climate change, demographic pressure, and urban competitiveness. The recreational and environmental development of these riverbanks through urban projects, seeking to better integrate the city with the presence of water, is leading to debates about the acceptability of these potentially flood-prone developments. Balancing risk and attractiveness, new innovative strategies are emerging that, while strengthening traditional prevention techniques, propose urban systems and lifestyles better adapted to the presence of water in the territory. The examples studied in this book, whether in Rotterdam or Dordrecht in the Netherlands, Hamburg or Mainz in Germany, Dunkirk, Lyon, Marseille, or Toulouse in France, as well as the views of certain experts on more distant cases, bear witness to this ambivalence. They demonstrate a strong capacity for innovation on the part of these cities to manage water-related resources, optimize functional and temporal land-use planning strategies, imagine water-resistant architectural and technical devices, and enhance these new landscapes.
Collection of the city in the making.
Bilingual work French / English.
European cities, often located along rivers or on seashores, are concerned about their vulnerability to flooding, a risk that is now heightened by climate change, demographic pressure, and urban competitiveness. The recreational and environmental development of these riverbanks through urban projects, seeking to better integrate the city with the presence of water, is leading to debates about the acceptability of these potentially flood-prone developments. Balancing risk and attractiveness, new innovative strategies are emerging that, while strengthening traditional prevention techniques, propose urban systems and lifestyles better adapted to the presence of water in the territory. The examples studied in this book, whether in Rotterdam or Dordrecht in the Netherlands, Hamburg or Mainz in Germany, Dunkirk, Lyon, Marseille, or Toulouse in France, as well as the views of certain experts on more distant cases, bear witness to this ambivalence. They demonstrate a strong capacity for innovation on the part of these cities to manage water-related resources, optimize functional and temporal land-use planning strategies, imagine water-resistant architectural and technical devices, and enhance these new landscapes.
Collection of the city in the making.
Bilingual work French / English.