Salty Urbanism maps the design strategies being developed by urban designers worldwide to confront the compounding crises of rising sea levels, coastal salinity, and the systemic threat these forces pose to urban infrastructure. Essential reading for practitioners working at the intersection of climate adaptation and city-making.
About This Book
As saltwater infiltrates freshwater sources, corrodes pipes, and undermines the foundations of coastal cities, the discipline of urban design is being asked to respond with urgency and invention. Salty Urbanism documents that response — gathering strategies that range from elevated buildings and green infrastructure to engineered coastal ecosystems designed to buffer storm surges and flooding. Edited by Jeffrey Huber, the book is less a manifesto than a working toolkit: a survey of applied thinking on climate-resilient urbanism that takes seriously both the scale of the problem and the specificity of local conditions. Indispensable for urban designers, landscape architects, and planners navigating the realities of sea-level rise and coastal adaptation.
Key Features
- 300 pages of documented urban design strategies, case studies, and climate adaptation approaches
- Edited by Jeffrey Huber
- Published by Oro Editions, ISBN 9781957183756
What You'll Discover
- How urban designers are elevating buildings and infrastructure as a direct response to inundation risk in coastal zones
- The role of green infrastructure — permeable surfaces, wetlands, and vegetated systems — in absorbing excess water and reducing flood impact
- Approaches to developing coastal ecosystems as engineered buffers against storm surges, reframing ecological restoration as urban infrastructure
- The cascading damage saltwater intrusion causes to water supply systems, roads, and built fabric — and the design and planning responses being developed to address it
About the Author
Jeffrey Huber is the editor of Salty Urbanism, bringing together a body of work that addresses the intersection of urban design and climate adaptation. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 300
- Dimensions: 230 x 150 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781957183756
- Publisher: Oro Editions
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Urban designers, landscape architects, coastal planners, climate adaptation researchers, and architecture students working on resilient city design and infrastructure in the face of sea-level rise.