Public Spaces for Water

<p>This illustrated notebook highlights the need for a change of paradigm in current flood management practices one that acknowledges the wide-ranging and interdisciplinary benefits brought by public space design. Reassessing and improving established flood management methods public spaces are faced with a new and enhanced role as mediators of flood adaptation able to integrate infrastructure and communities together in the management of flood water as an ultimate resource for urban resilience.</p><p>The book specifically introduces a path towards a new perspective on flood adaptation through public space design stressing the importance of local bottom up approaches. Deriving from a solution-directed investigation which is particularly attentive to design the book offers a wide range of systematized conceptual solutions of flood adaptation measures applicable in the design of public spaces.</p><p>Through a commonly used vocabulary and simple technical notions the book facilitates and accelerates the initial brainstorm phases of a public space project with flood adaptation capacities enabling a direct application in contemporary practice. Furthermore it offers a significant sample of real-case examples that may further assist the decision-making throughout design processes.</p><p>Overall the book envisions to challenge established professionals such as engineers architects or urban planners to work and design with uncertainty in an era of an unprecedented climate. </p>