Design Resilience in Asia: Thinking the Unpredictable, Designing with Uncertainty

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Design Resilience in Asia is organised according to 'seven inspirations' - seven ideas - and presents a collection of theoretical essays and a set of provocative and innovative solutions to design, plan and build urban resilience in uncertain and unpredictable scenarios.

Lead by the National University of Singapore School of Design and Environment, this book presents the research by design results of four consecutive years in four different countries China, Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand responding to the current challenge of building more resilient cities in front of impacts of climate change, such as coastal and river flooding, water and air pollution, water scarcity, urban heat island effect, aquifer depletion or subsidence. The book brings together the work of highly-reputed academics, professionals and scholars from 20 universities worldwide with the aim of serving as a guide for mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change, and more specifically to reinstating the environmental qualities of our cities through carbon-neutral or carbon net-positive urban designs and plans.

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"A timely and invaluable contribution given the current and expected increasingly serious impacts of climate change, "Design Resilience in Asia: Thinking the Unpredictable, Designing with Uncertainty" is an essential and core addition to personal, professional, community, college, university, and governmental library Sustainability & Green Design, Regional Architecture, and Urban & Land Use Planning collections and supplemental curriculum studies reading lists." --Midwest Book Review