Floating architecture in the landscape: climate change adaptation ideas, opportunities and challenges

Edmund Penning-Rowsell

Landscape Research, 2020, vol. 45, issue 4, 395-411

Abstract: Opportunities exist for radical strategies, driven by spatial planning, to adapt our urban fabric to climate change. Floating developments are one such innovation. This phenomenon and its ideas are driven by a variety of societal forces, including by population pressure, rapid urbanisation, the resulting need for additional housing inventory, by urban adaptation strategies to counter fluvial flooding and sea level rise, plus interests in urban landscape renewal. We reflect on seventeen projects in five countries and note that, to date, it is inner city harbours or industrial areas in decline that are being targeted for floating communities. These can add renewal, recreational and landscape value, while simultaneously expanding the existing urban housing stock.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2019.1694881

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