Short description:

Calibrating Coastal Resilience presents a conceptual reimagining of place in the era of climate change. Using case studies from South Florida, the book illustrates the unique climate risks for this region with a focus on the preservation of historic neighborhoods and buildings and reinforcement of built structures.

Long description:

Calibrating Coastal Resilience presents a conceptual reimagining of place in the era of climate change. The urban terroir framework introduced by the authors offers a holistic, data-driven approach to assessing vulnerabilities in the built environment and in designing cities. Inspired by the hyperlocal relationships between humans, cultural traditions, and urban and natural contexts, the authors develop a place-based, historically sympathetic methodology for guiding climate-related urban policies, designs, and actions in coastal areas. Coastal communities have been among the first to experience the devastating consequences of the climate crisis. Using case studies from South Florida, the book illustrates the unique climate risks for this region, including flooding, hurricane, and sea-level rise scenarios, with a focus on the preservation of historic neighborhoods and buildings and reinforcement of built structures.

Drawing from the authors? extensive experience in community planning and historic preservation in cities severely affected by the impacts of climate change, this book introduces practical methods for identifying and aligning preservation goals with resilience needs, including a novel and comprehensive methodology that combines their Storm Surge Building Vulnerability (SSVB) additive model with a Synoptic Survey digital method and associated proticols, and a cultural asset benchmarking system that intersects resilience and preservation objectives. Refined through real-life application and the experience of Southeast Florida preparing for and responding to climate change, these techniques are highly specialized yet designed for ease of implementation.

A valuable resource for professionals and students of architecture, urban planning, historic preservation, and local governments globally, Calibrating Coastal Resilience offers communities clear guidelines and actionable steps toward creating place-based resilience planning strategies to safeguard the natural and built landscapes of their region.

Table of Contents:

Contents

Preface

Author biography

Contributors

1. Embracing an Ecological Approach to Urban Design in the Anthropocene Era: Invaluable Lessons from History on the Advantages of Understanding, Evaluating, and Coexisting Harmoniously with Nature
   Sonia Cháo and Gustavo Sánchez Hugalde


2. Multi-faceted Challenges and Socio-Economic Considerations
   Sonia Cháo with contributions by Gustavo Sánchez Hugalde


3. Addressing the Nature-Culture Dichotomy through Adaptive City Siting and Design in Response to the Emerging Climate Predicament
   Sonia Cháo with contributions by Gustavo Sánchez Hugalde and Madeleine Li


4. Manifesting the ?Urban Terroir?: introducing a hyper-local & holistic framework for a climate-challenged era
   Sonia Cháo with contributions by Gustavo Sánchez Hugalde


5. Re-mapping our Future through a Novel Approach: The Urban Terroir Principles, Priorities, Methods, and Tools
   Sonia Cháo


6. Calibrating Coastal Urban Vulnerabilities and Resilience through Modeling
   Sonia Cháo and Benjamin Ghansah


7. The 'SSBV Synoptic Survey': Precedents, Climate-Framework, Associated Protocols, and Contributions to the 'Storm Surge Building Vulnerability Model' Sonia Cháo, Benjamin Ghansah, and Timothy Norris


8. Development of the Storm Surge Building Vulnerability Model (SSBV): A Hyper-local Flood Vulnerability Model for Coastal Regions
   Sonia Cháo and Benjamin Ghansah


9. The Storm Surge Building Vulnerability Model: Assessing Coastal Morphological and Typological Paradigms through Four Case Studies
   Sonia Cháo and Benjamin Ghansah


10. Resolving the Terse Paradox Between Historic Preservation and Climate Adaptation: A Proposed Sliding-Scale Benchmarking System
    Sonia Cháo


11. Effectively Communicating Resilient Affordable Housing and Preservation Alternatives Messages to Community Stakeholders
    Sonia Cháo and Madeleine Li


12. The evolving role of governmental partnerships in climate adaptation planning in the face of multiple and escalating flood hazards
    Katherine Hagemann, Sonia Cháo and Madeleine Li

 Acknowledgments