New Orleans after Katrina: Building America's Water City

Waggonner, David; Dolman, Nanco; Hoeferlin, Derek; Meyer, Han; Schengenga, Pieter; Thomaesz, Sabien; Bout, Jaap Van Den; Salm, J. van der; Zwet, C van der

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“…Orleans Urban Water Plan has proposed a comprehensive water management plan to stabilize the soil and groundwater levels, and to link urban districts and waterfront public spaces (Waggonner et al, 2014). This plan will not only contribute to flood protection but also new spatial qualities and the future socio-economic growth of New Orleans.…”

Section: Green-blue Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

Restructuring Cultural Landscapes in Metropolitan Areas

Xie

2022

The Urban Book Series

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The accomplishment of this doctoral thesis is a dream come true: a dream work in a dream place with a dream team. It is a mission impossible, which would never have been realized without the support of the people I would like to thank here. First of all, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my supervisors Prof. Sören Schöbel and Prof. Johannes Küchler for their extraordinary support in the past six years. I still remember how excited I was in the Chinese New Year of 2011 when I received the offer from Sören Schöbel. I was then offered the opportunity to study and work at the professorship of LAREG and to gain precious life experience in Europe. It was an inspiring moment to meet Johannes Küchler at the ICOMOS conference in Florence. It was a shared passion and love for landscape in China that brought us together. I not only learnt academic and professional skills from them, but also the values for work and life, which have been of enormous benefit both in my academic career and my life in general.Besides my supervisors, my gratitude is also due to my dear colleagues and friends, who provided their generous support with this thesis and accompanied and encouraged me throughout: Special thanks go to my colleagues

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Section: Green-blue Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

Restructuring Cultural Landscapes in Metropolitan Areas

Xie

2022

The Urban Book Series

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“…Giant pumping systems drained the marshlands, behind the natural levees of the river, to create dry building conditions for new urban extensions. But the pumping also created irreversible land subsidence, exacerbating the area's vulnerability to flooding (Campanella 2006(Campanella , 2010Waggonner et al 2014).…”

Section: The Destructive Role Of Industrialization and The Colonizatimentioning

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Toward a Cultural Heritage of Adaptation: A Plea to Embrace the Heritage of a Culture of Risk, Vulnerability and Adaptation

Meyer

2019

Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage

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We need to tell a new story about urbanizing delta regions. Historically, large-scale 'iconic' hydraulic works and modern industrial ports have been celebrated as showing the power of humans to control and subject nature. The emphasis on this part of cultural heritage tends to bury the remains of engineering and urban development of the previous periods and to erase the ebb and flow of natural processes in the earlier landscape. Instead of emphasizing resistance against nature and victories over nature, we need to embrace mitigation, adaptation, and uncertainty. Many urbanized delta regions, including the Dutch delta, have a rich history of such approaches. We can learn from that history, from the successes as well as from the failures. This chapter is a plea to embrace the dynamic and evolutionary character of delta regions and the cultures of adaptation which have been developed over many centuries. It means that another policy concerning cultural heritage should be stimulated in urbanizing deltas, fostering a heritage with an adaptive approach, not as a complete departure from present ways of doing things, but as a new stage in a centuries-long tradition. 401 402 H. Meyer Mitigation, adaptation, uncertainty: It seems that these themes are new and that they mean a fundamental break with the policies and strategies of the past. That is the dominating story, especially concerning urbanizing deltas. These regions have been developed into important hubs of the fossil fuel economy during the last 150 years. The transshipment, storage, and processing of fossil fuels are required large industrial and port areas and a sophisticated infrastructure of deep sea ports, quay walls, navigation channels, and flood defense systems. Mitigation, including the transition toward new energy systems, will have great impact on both land use and infrastructure in these regions. Next to it, adapting to the effects of climate change, like rising sea level and increasing peak discharges of rivers, requires a fundamental revision of flood defense strategies. Today's uncertain circumstances seem to call for these sharp breaks with the long-term spatial and technical arrangements of delta regions.But presenting the adaptive approach as a new approach, breaking with traditions, makes it vulnerable and easy to attack by opponents. Most of the national cultural heritage in the Netherlands (and there are many similar examples in other countries) conveys a message that it is possible to resist, control, and subdue nature: We did it for centuries, with increasing success, so why should we s change to another approach? These monuments are cherished as characteristic reminders of a strong collective culture which has claimed land from the sea step-by-step, making untamed marshlands submit to human will. In particular, the large hydraulic works of the nineteenth and twentieth century are celebrated as important chapters of a story on the supremacy of a nation state, a new technology of steam power, fossil energy, and an industrial economy, tools tha...

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“…Balz and Zonneveld 2015, De Zwart 2015), or analysed design-based envisioning in relation to specific planning issues (e.g. , Waggonner et al 2014, Heeres et al 2017. This thesis demonstrates that regional designing can affect the aims, the process and conditions of spatial planning, and it can have an effect on the development of the spatial planning and design disciplines.…”

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“…This collaborative or interactive character of the design process is another aspect that is seldom addressed in conceptualisations of regional designing, but it is, however, present in many descriptions and accounts of regional designing (e.g. Brand et al 2014, Kempenaar 2016, Meijsmans and Beelen 2010, Waggonner et al 2014, Stein 2005. Regional designing is a collaborative effort where representatives of various stakeholder groups participate in the design process.…”

Section: Regional Designingmentioning

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“…Kempenaar et al 2016b, De Jonge 2009, Pahl-Weber and Schwarze 2014, Van Dijk 2011 and used as means to develop regional visions and strategies in spatial planning processes. As such it is employed in for example Australia , the USA (Waggonner et al 2014, Steinitz 2012, Thün et al 2013 , Stein 2005, Scandinavia (Bornhorst and Schmid 2015) and the Netherlands (De Zwart 2015, Meijsmans andBeelen 2010, De Jonge 2009). Regional designing has to fit the social, economic, cultural and institutional spatial planning situation, which is different in each country or state (e.g.…”

Section: Regional Designingmentioning

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New Orleans after Katrina: Building America's Water City

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Restructuring Cultural Landscapes in Metropolitan Areas

Restructuring Cultural Landscapes in Metropolitan Areas

Toward a Cultural Heritage of Adaptation: A Plea to Embrace the Heritage of a Culture of Risk, Vulnerability and Adaptation

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