Public Spaces for Water: A Design Notebook eBook

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This illustrated notebook highlights the need for a change of paradigm in current flood management practices, one that acknowledges the wide-ranging and interdisciplinary benefits brought by public space design. Reassessing and improving established flood management methods, public spaces are faced with a new and enhanced role as mediators of flood adaptation able to integrate infrastructure and communities together in the management of flood water as an ultimate resource for urban resilience. The book specifically introduces a path towards a new perspective on flood adaptation through public space design, stressing the importance of local, bottom up, approaches. Deriving from a solution-directed investigation, which is particularly attentive to design, the book offers a wide range of systematized conceptual solutions of flood adaptation measures applicable in the design of public spaces. Through a commonly used vocabulary and simple technical notions, the book facilitates and accelerates the initial brainstorm phases of a public space project with flood adaptation capacities, enabling a direct application in contemporary practice. Furthermore, it offers a significant sample of real-case examples that may further assist the decision-making throughout design processes. Overall, the book envisions to challenge established professionals, such as engineers, architects or urban planners, to work and design with uncertainty in an era of an unprecedented climate.

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Additional ISBNs
9780429020421, 9781032082639, 9780429668920, 9780429671906

Public Spaces for Water: A Design Notebook 1st Edition is written by Maria Matos Silva and published by CRC Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Public Spaces for Water are 9780429670411, 0429670419 and the print ISBNs are 9780367031008, 0367031000. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9780429020421, 9781032082639, 9780429668920, 9780429671906.