This is a relevant and surprising book which presents and compares some policies and practices of waterfront regeneration in Tokyo, Sydney, Shanghai, and elsewhere. It shows an international perspective with several original contributions of young scholars and more experienced academics.
Xiaoming Zhu, Professor, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai.
As the world faces the onslaught of intensified environmental calamities, Waterfront Regeneration in a Time of Climate Change: Recent Japanese and International Experiences presents a timely, must-read compendium of perspectives to address these contemporary challenges through rigorous, multi-disciplinary analysis by architects, urban planners and designers, and architectural historians.
Ken Tadashi Oshima, Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Washington, Seattle.
"Building on Japan's extensive experience in water urbanism and flood management, Waterfront Regeneration in a Time of Climate Change is an ambitious publication that bridges the gap between research, planning, and design for resilient coastal cities."
Grulois Geoffrey, Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Université libre de Bruxelles.
"This compelling collection of contemporary and historic essays leaves no doubt about the profound environmental, social and governance challenges confronting waterside cities in the era of global warming. Its many insights and ideas about precarity and preparedness underline the salience of transformative, grounded and inclusive long term strategies transcending business-as-usual."
Robert Freestone, Professor, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney.
