List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Carola Hein

Introduction

Pernice Raffaele, 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

William Galloway

6) From Shipyards to Skylines: 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) Affordable Floating Communities: How can Human Life on Water be made Attractive and Socially Sustainable for Larger Communities?

Harry den Hartog

11) Small-Scale Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Flood Mitigation in the Tropical High-density Cities: A Case of Bangkok's Polder Areas

Theeraporn Premchaiswadi

12) San Francisco Waterfront Resilience Program Draft Plan

Adam Varat, Luiz Barata

13) Waterfronts as Shared Heritage: Balancing Heritage Conservation and Climate Change Mitigation in Metro Vancouver’s waterfront areas

Yiting Pan

14) Climate Adaptation in Sydney Waterfront Planning Management

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