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Resilient City: Landscape Architecture for Climate Change
Resilient City: Landscape Architecture for Climate Change
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Climate change poses a significant challenge for cities, and landscape architecture provides solutions that enhance the quality of life. This volume showcases measures and plans from eleven major cities in North and South America to protect their inhabitants and habitats from future storms, floods, landslides, and heat and drought. It analyzes outstanding projects in their geographic and climatic context, addressing social and cultural dimensions of resilience.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 22 November 2021
Publisher: Birkhauser
Climate change poses a significant challenge for cities in the future, and landscape architecture is a crucial solution. It offers complex and interdisciplinary solutions that enhance the quality of everyday life, including green roofs and facades, urban gardening, and the landscaping of large-scale protection works. This volume showcases measures and plans from eleven major cities in North and South America, from Vancouver to Rio de Janeiro, to protect their inhabitants and habitats against future storms, floods, landslides, and long periods of heat and drought. The author analyzes outstanding projects in the featured cities in their geographic and climatic context, and also addresses the social and cultural dimensions of resilience.
Weight: 964g
Dimension: 270 x 213 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783035622348
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