Fragile and resilient cities on water
Subtitle: perspectives from Venice and Tokyo
By: edited by Rosa Caroli, Stefano Soriani
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781443873383
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: City planning; Cities and towns
Other titles: Cities on water
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Forward  -- Rosa Caroli and Stefano Soriani -- Chapter One.; title: Introduction: Proposing Suitogaku-towards a comparative study of cities on water  -- Hidenobu Jinnai -- Chapter Two.; title: Sustainable tourism in Venice: what lessons for other fragile cities on water?  -- Jan van der Borg -- Chapter Three.; title: Resilience amidst fragility along Tokyo's waterways  -- Paul Waley -- Chapter Four.; title: The Sumida River Renaissance: a new policy for the development of the river  -- Yusaku Imamura -- Chapter Five.; title: Conflict and synergy in the port-city relationship: critical issues and perspectives in the case of Venice  -- Stefano Soriani -- Chapter Six.; title: Considering the redevelopment of the Tokyo Bay Area from the basics  -- Hidenobu Jinnai -- Chapter Seven.; title: Loss and recovery of lowland rivers in Tokyo  -- Nobuyuki Tsuchiya -- Chapter Eight.; title: Tsukudajima: a man-made island in Edo (Tokyo) Bay  -- Rosa Caroli -- Chapter Nine.; title: The development of Tokyo Bay and waterborne traffic  -- Iwao Takamatsu -- Chapter Ten.; title: Venice: living with water, learning with nature-a regenerating arena for global cities -- Giovanni Cecconi.