This book discusses contemporary ideas about planning and design for coastal resilience. It provides an alternative presentation of the issues and solutions and examines strategies that work with natural processes to incorporate water into the urban environment, designing places and structures that can accommodate flooding and water storage.

PART 1 NEW WAYS OF THINKING AND WORKING. Section I Shifting Realities. 1 Designing the Coast in the Moment of Rain. 2 Fraying at the Edges: On Coastal Life and Rising Seas. 3 (Re)Think (Re)Design for Resilience. 4 Resilience and the Translation of Expertise. Section II Methods and Practices. 5 The Joy of Counterintuitivity. 6 The Dutch "Room for the River" Program (2006-2017): Landscape Quality as a Binding Agent. 7 Drawing a Line in the Sand: Rebuild by Design, Mathematical Modeling, and Blue Dunes. 8 Designing Resiliency: Interdisciplinary Geovisualization for Complex Coastal Environments. 9 Best Practices for Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Coastal Resiliency. 10 Engaging the Community to Envision the Coastal Climate Future. PART 2 NEW STRATEGIES. Section III Deltas, Bays, and Estuaries. 11 Structures of Coastal Resilience: Adaptive Design for Jamaica Bay, New York. 12 Resilience and Coastal Ecosystems: Three Typologies, Three Design Approaches. 13 Resilience of Natural Systems and Human Communities in the Mississippi Delta: Moving beyond Adaptability Due to Shifting Baselines. 14 New Orleans, Coastal City. 15 The Giving Delta. 16 A Fine Dutch Tradition in the Noordwaard. 17 Thresholds and Contingencies: A Design Process for Regional Coastal Resilience. 18 The Mekong Delta: A Coastal Quagmire. Section IV Sites and Structures. 19 The New Hondsbossche Dunes. 20 Adaptive Landscapes for Coastal Restoration and Resilience in Contemporary China. 21 Going with the Flow: Building Resilience in Southeast Queensland. 22 Architectural Strategies for a Dynamic Coast. 23 The Hard Habitats of Coastal Armoring. 24 Armatures for Coastal Resilience.