Main entry:

Mertens, Elke, author.

Title & Author:

Resilient city : landscape architecture for climate change / Elke Mertens ; translation: Julian Reisenberger.

Publication:

Basel : Birkhäuser, [2021]
©2021

Description:

254 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color plans, 27 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Die Resiliente Stadt : Landschaftsarchitektur für den Klimawandel.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-251) and index.
Foreword -- Resilience as a Factor of Urban Development --- Toronto -- Vancouver -- New York City -- Detroit -- Houston -- Bogotá -- Medellín -- Rio De Janeiro -- Manaus -- Brasília - Montevideo -- Landscape Architecture and the Resilience of Cities in Times of Climate Change.
Translated from German.

Summary:

"Climate change is one of the major challenges facing cities in the future. Landscape architecture is particularly in demand here because it offers solutions that are characterized by complexity and interdisciplinarity and contribute to the quality of everyday life. These range from green roofs and facades to urban gardening and the landscaping of large-scale protection works. This volume presents measures and plans of eleven major cities in North and South America, from Vancouver to Rio de Janeiro, to protect their inhabitants and their habitats against future storms, floods, landslides or long periods of heat and drought. Outstanding projects in the featured cities are analyzed in their geographic and climatic context. The author also addresses the social and cultural dimensions of resilience"-- Publisher's description.

ISBN:

9783035622348 paperback
3035622345 paperback
German edition
9783035622331

Subject:

City planning Climatic factors.
Landscape architecture Climatic factors.
Ecological landscape design.
Urban ecological design.
Architecture du paysage Facteurs climatiques.
Aménagement paysager écologique.
Écoconception urbaine.

Added entries:

Reisenberger, Julian, translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315131
Call No.: 315131
Copy: 1
Status: Available