Extreme City Book

EXTREME CITY
climate change and the transformation of the waterscape
Lorenzo Fabian, Paola Viganò eds.

published by
© June 2010
Università Iuav di Venezia
Via Tolentini, S. Croce 191
30135 Venezia, Italy
www.iuav.it
ISBN 978-88-87697-43-8



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Product Dimensions >150 x 210 x 24 mm
Number of pages > 292
Language > English
Print > Grafiche Leone, Dolo Venezia

Authors > (editors)L. Fabian, P. Viganò; (UPC Barcelona) T. Arbona, P. Elinbaum, B. Horrach; (TU Delft) S. Tiallinji; (KU Leuven) M. Dehaene; (IUAV Venezia) L. Fabian, V. Ferrario, B. Secchi, P. Viganò, G. Zaccariotto; (NY Parson School) B. Mc Graath; (PHD Urbanism, IUAV Venezia) V. Bandieramonte, G. Talamini, C. Cavalieri, V. Barcelloni Corte, C. Pregazzi; (IP Students) Sara King , Miguel Vanleene, Melisa Pesoa Marcilla, Charles Yan Gore, Zhang Yingtian, Diego Luna Quintanilla, Rebeca Perez Castera, Nicola Maniero, Andrea Cremasco, Takumi Kimura,, Ling Chen, Fernanda Escayola, Tahereh Keimanesh, Veronica Saddi, Vasiliki Tsioutsiou, Juan Argemi, Carlo Pisano, Aarti C Sharma, Gabriela Secco, Michele Girelli, Francesca Arca, Alessandra Cassol, Maura Rossi, Jonathan Blaseg, Marta Finotello, Le Ngoc Linh, Miguel Cuellas, Giulia Mazzorin, Eli Grønn, Diogo Pires Ferreira, Serena Causin, Andrea Curtoni, Cecilia Furlan , Rana Habibi, Kris Huismans, Meghal Kodiya, Monica Netti, Joel Sanabra,Barbara Sandra, Jimena Garcia Galindo, Carlo Pin, Kaveh Rashidzadeh, Philippe Vandenbroeck;(maps and editing) C. Cavalieri, C. Furlan, C. Nicosia; Cover photograph > A. Pertoldeo

Content of book:

“Extreme City - Climate change and the transformation of the waterscape” is the book about  the results of the Intensive Learning Programme held recently at the Iuav University (Venice, 3rd – 15th April 2010) with the projectual explorations of the EMU students and the teachers contributions. The Extreme City IP have been an intensive urban design programme funded by the EC that had as its object the change in the waterscape in relation to climate change in the Venetian Lagoon.  The goals of the intensive programme have been to deal with changes in the water space in climate change conditions. A “research by design” approach was chosen as the starting point of a reflection on techniques and forms of knowledge which use the project to tackle complex issues. A multidisciplinary approach has been proposed to deal with the vulnerability of a dispersedly inhabited region.

Index of book:

Foreword
Extreme city: an intensive programme

• Paola Viganò, Extreme city: a design and a research theme

The extreme cities in the age of climate change

• water dispute: micro-stories
• Bernardo Secchi, Extreme cities: water conflicts
• Valentina Bandieramonte, Two waterways in Palestine
• Gianni Talamini, Shrinkage. A micro-story of Lake Aral’s drainage area
• Michiel Dehaene, An ocean to drink. Notes on urbanism in the age of climate change

• small dictionary on CC
• Chiara Cavalieri, Introduction
• Caterina Pregazzi, Mitigation and adaptation
• Martina Barcelloni Corte, On resistance
• Chiara Cavalieri, On resilience

Three european territories

• Delta region metropolitan area
• Sybrand Tjallingii, Planning with water, dilemmas and strategies
• Aarti Sharma, Andrea Curtoni, Diogo Pires Ferreira, Giulia Mazzorin, Linh Ngoc Le. Meghal Kodia, Rotterdam closed rivercity: water dam
• Tahereh Keimanesh, Sara King, Carlo Pisano, Diego Luna Quintanilla,Veronica Saddi, Vasiliki Tsioutsiou, Rotterdam open rivercity

• Barcelona metropolitan area
• Pablo Elinbaum, Biel Horrach Estarellas, Towards a strategy for agricultural landscape interaction. Delta of LLobregat
• Pablo Elinbaum, Biel Horrach Estarellas, Landscapes of the Ebro. A territory cut by infrastructure

• Venetian metropolitan area
• Viviana Ferrario, On agricultural space in the città diffusa and its importance for the future
• Giambattista Zaccariotto, Water sensitive design for the città diffusa of the Veneto Region
• Elisa Brusegan, Emanuele Dal Zot, Giulia Grobbo, Nicola Maniero, Laguna forma urbis 2108

a territory built by water

• Lorenzo Fabian, A water [re]search

along the Veneto plain:

On-the-spot investigation in between the rivers Piave and Brenta

• The dry plain
• Hydrarchy+ > Sara King , Miguel Vanleene, Melisa Pesoa Marcilla, Charles Yan Gore, Zhang Yingtian, Diego Luna Quintanilla, Rebeca Perez Castera, Nicola Maniero
• Acqua diffusa > Andrea Cremasco, Takumi Kimura,, Ling Chen, Fernanda Escayola, Tahereh Keimanesh, Veronica Saddi, Vasiliki Tsioutsiou

• The low wet plain
• Wet wet wet > Juan Argemi, Carlo Pisano, Aarti C Sharma, Gabriela Secco, Michele Girelli
• Water boundaries > Francesca Arca, Alessandra Cassol, Maura Rossi

• The coastline and the lagoon
• Xtreme lagoon/retreat resist > Jonathan Blaseg, Marta Finotello, Le Ngoc Linh, Miguel Cuellas, Giulia Mazzorin, Eli Grønn, Diogo Pires Ferreira
• Landscape of the extreme > What if...the lagoon would expand to allow resilience, Serena Causin, Andrea Curtoni, Cecilia Furlan , Rana Habibi, Kris Huismans, Meghal Kodiya, Monica Netti, Joel Sanabra,Barbara Sandra

on cc design

• Brian McGrath, The extreme architect
• Dialogue with design, Jimena Garcia Galindo, Carlo Pin, Kaveh Rashidzadeh, Philippe Vandenbroeck

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