Urban Shores: Towards Landscape-Based Coastal Adaptation translates five years of international research into concrete, replicable methods for reshaping the edges of coastal cities in the face of rising sea levels.
About This Book
Coastal adaptation is one of the defining urban challenges of the coming decades, and Urban Shores moves the conversation past abstraction. Grounded in a research project spanning 2019 to 2024, the book examines how landscape-based solutions — wetlands, managed retreat, soft infrastructure — can restructure the relationship between city and sea. Rather than treating flood resilience as purely an engineering problem, it argues for approaches that are ecological, spatial, and urban simultaneously. The international case studies give the research genuine comparative depth, making this an indispensable reference for anyone working across coastal planning, landscape architecture, and climate-adaptive urbanism.
Key Features
- 288 pages of research findings, methods, and international case studies in coastal landscape adaptation
- Authors: Anna Aslaug Lund, Ole Fryd, Gertrud Jørgensen
- Case studies include Denmark's Køge Bay, managed retreat programmes in the Netherlands and United States, and wetland restoration in the Venice lagoon
- Published by The Danish Architectural Press, 2024
What You'll Discover
- How landscape-based coastal solutions differ from hard engineering approaches, and why that distinction matters for long-term urban resilience
- The specifics of Denmark's Køge Bay intervention as a working model for integrating natural systems into urban coastal edges
- How the Netherlands and the United States are navigating the politically and socially complex process of relocating buildings out of flood-prone zones
- Venice's ongoing effort to restore lost wetlands in the surrounding lagoon as a form of ecological urban repair
About the Author
Anna Aslaug Lund is one of three authors behind this research, alongside Ole Fryd and Gertrud Jørgensen. The work emerges from a five-year collaborative research project (2019–2024) focused on landscape-based approaches to coastal city adaptation.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 288
- Dimensions: 170 x 240 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9788774075790
- Publisher: The Danish Architectural Press
- Publication Date: 2024
Perfect For: Landscape architects, urban planners, coastal engineers, environmental policy researchers, and design academics working at the intersection of climate adaptation and city-making.