The Institution of Civil Engineers together with Building Futures, a think tank of the Royal Institute of British Architects, RIBA, have published a study addressing the future of the UK's coastal cities.
Facing Up to Rising Sea Levels - Retreat? Defend? Attack? suggests that changes should be made to manmade constraints in the built environment to adapt to likely changes in the physical environment, including increased storm frequency and rising sea levels.
Through coastal management, adaptive architecture, and sea defences, but most importantly, investing and acting proactively, Building Futures suggests that the negatives of climate change can become positives.
Their recommendations for architects, engineers, and urban designers:
Post by: Anne Marie Chance
stakeholders from the beginning of the design process – especially the environment agency. potential of water, waterways and wetlands in the urban environment. opportunities that can be created through creative and commercially viable flood management systems, encouraging integrated, multi-functional and economically advantageous solutions.• Design-led approaches to flood risk managementshould shift from a reliance on flood defences to a holistic management of risk, combining defence and measures to alleviate the impact of floods.• Structural measures, particularly defenceworks, should avoid disconnecting one part of a community from another and should preserve visual (and where possible physical) continuity between the community and rivers and coastline.• New development or regeneration should be seenas an opportunity to change existing land use in urban areas to make space for water.
• Consult and communicate with all relevant
• Schemes should seek to fully exploit the amenity
• Inform the developer/client of development
Not a terribly surprising set of recommendations, but if you haven't already, it is definitely worth downloading the study to read through the case studies.
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