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Delta urbanism: planning and design in urbanized deltas - comparing the Dutch delta with the Mississippi River delta

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  • Han Meyer
  • Steffen Nijhuis

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Planning and design approaches in urbanized deltas are in a process of fundamental reconsideration. For a new approach, it is fruitful to consider the urbanized delta area as a complex, layered system, based upon complex-systems theories and layer-based methods. With this theoretical point of view, we can distinguish several development periods of urbanized deltas like the Mississippi River delta and the Dutch Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta. In the current period, both deltas find themselves in a transition between the regime of the recent past and the new regime. In this transition process, the planning and design of the infrastructural system will be crucial. In order to find the most effective approach to infrastructure as a condition for urban development and water management, it will be important to develop a method of research by design, based upon strong collaboration between different disciplines such as urban design and planning, hydraulic engineering, landscape architecture, and environmental sciences.

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  • Han Meyer & Steffen Nijhuis, 2013. "Delta urbanism: planning and design in urbanized deltas - comparing the Dutch delta with the Mississippi River delta," Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 6(2), pages 160-191, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjouxx:v:6:y:2013:i:2:p:160-191
    DOI: 10.1080/17549175.2013.820210
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    1. Christian Nolf & Yuting Xie & Florence Vannoorbeeck & Bing Chen, 2021. "Delta management in evolution: a comparative review of the Yangtze River Delta and Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt Delta," Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, Springer, vol. 5(2), pages 597-624, June.
    2. Irene Perez Lopez & Daniel Jan Martin, 2023. "Rethinking Estuary Urbanism—Preparing Australian Estuary Cities for Changes to Come in the Climate and Biodiversity Emergency," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(2), pages 1-22, January.
    3. Chen-Kun Chung, 2019. "The exploration of relationship between land subsidence and landscape transformation," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 97(3), pages 1051-1068, July.

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