Waterfront Regeneration in a Time of Climate Change

Recent Japanese and International Experiences

Raffaele Pernice, Tetsuya Yaguchi

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040402184
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture Design

The current climate crisis and the rapid transformation of the natural environments will inevitably pose a threat to human settlements around the world. This book explores possible local strategies and global solutions in the safeguarding of coastal cities and the often-neglected urban waterfronts, in terms of a more effective integration with the city, whilst paying attention to the mitigation of the risks related to climate change.

Designers, administrators and engineers need to start developing various scenarios and possible solutions to tackle the inevitable transformation which is currently unfolding. This edited book contains essays which discuss several themes related to the effects of climate change on waterfronts, looking at Japan's experience and other international case studies. Collectively, they provide a multi-faceted analysis of selected projects and relevant urban experiences and practices which address issues such as the environmental disruption and the need for more efficient and sustainable forms of regeneration and urban renewal practice for the waterfronts.

The volume will appeal to architects, planners, geographers and general readers with an interest in landscape design and social science in an international context, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in the disciplines of built environment.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures and tables
• List of Contributors
• Foreword: Carola Hein
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part I 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
• 2 Urban Life on the Water: Concepts, Models and Prototypes for Marine Habitats in Japan 1958–2025
• 3 Tokyo Waterfront Urban Planning and Disaster Resilience: An Unforgettable Memory
• 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
• 5 Resilience in Tokyo: Building on Change
• 6 From Shipyards to Skylines: An Overview about the Evolution of Yokohama’s Waterfront
• 7 Waterfront Restoration in Yokohama after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923: Focusing on the Reconstruction of Yokohama Harbor and Canals
• Part II Water and the city in the early 21st century: Architectural and urban dimensions— Case studies international
• 8 Venice floods: An urban morphology perspective
• 9 Waterfront regeneration and vitality in Hong Kong Central
• 10 Floating communities: How can human life on water be made more attractive and socially sustainable for larger communities?
• 11 Small-scale green infrastructure for mitigating flooding in tropical high-density cities: A case study of Bangkok’s polder area
• 12 San Francisco Waterfront Resilience Program Draft Plan
• 13 Waterfronts as Shared Heritage: Conserving Vancouver’s False Creek in the Context of Climate Change Adaptation
• 14 Climate Adaptation in Sydney’s Waterfront Planning Management: Making Developments Responsive to Sea Level Rise
• 15 Exit the Waterfront. Enter Coastal Landscape Design: A Case Study of the Mekong Delta
• 16 Reformulating Peri-Urban Landscape Guidelines to Maintain Stormwater Management Capacity in Low-lying Developing Cities: A Case of Phnom Penh
• Afterword
• Index