Planning and Designing Cities for a Rising Sea Level confronts one of urban planning's most consequential challenges — how coastal cities can make defensible decisions about adaptation when the rate and extent of sea level rise remains deeply uncertain. 38 words.
About This Book
As climate change accelerates, coastal urban communities face an acute planning dilemma: how to act decisively on sea level rise when its pace and scale are still in flux. This book addresses that tension directly, bringing together knowledge, practice, and future-oriented thinking to support robust, evidence-based coastal adaptation. Rather than prescribing a single model, it advocates for multidisciplinary approaches that are sensitive to local conditions and extended time horizons — the kind of thinking that wicked problems demand. Essential reading for urban planners, landscape architects, and climate adaptation specialists working at the intersection of design and environmental risk.
Key Features
- 426 pages of multidisciplinary analysis spanning urban planning, design strategy, and climate science
- Authors: Gertrud Jørgensen, Tom Nielsen, Karsten Arnbjerg-Nielsen, and Kamilla Stener Møller
- Published by Danish Architectural Press, ISBN 9788774075806
What You'll Discover
- Why the uncertainty of sea level rise projections — not just the rise itself — is the central planning challenge for coastal cities
- How multidisciplinary collaboration between designers, planners, and climate scientists produces more resilient adaptation strategies
- The relationship between evidence-based decision-making and locally attuned design responses in vulnerable coastal communities
- Frameworks for navigating the extended time horizons that coastal adaptation planning requires, where conventional project cycles fall short
About the Author
This volume is co-authored by Gertrud Jørgensen, Tom Nielsen, Karsten Arnbjerg-Nielsen, and Kamilla Stener Møller — a multidisciplinary team whose combined expertise spans urban planning, architectural theory, and climate hydrology. Their collaborative approach reflects the book's central argument that no single discipline can adequately address the complexity of sea level rise adaptation.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 426
- Dimensions: 170 × 230 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9788774075806
- Publisher: Danish Architectural Press
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Urban planners, landscape architects, coastal engineers, climate adaptation researchers, and design academics engaged with the long-term futures of cities under environmental pressure.