Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise

Dr. Galen D. Newman is Associate Professor and Interim Department Head in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University. He also serves as the Director of the Center for Housing and Urban Development. Dr. Newman’s research overlaps the fields of community resilience, land use science, urban analytics, landscape performance and advanced visualization. He has published over 70 peer reviewed articles in high-quality journals and has received over 31 million dollars in interdisciplinary funded research projects.Zixu Qiao has a Master of Landscape Architecture from Texas A&M University. She is a professional landscape architect, guest speaker at University of Guelph, and the founder of Land.Space Architecture. Her work includes research, design, and planning on a variety of site planning and landscape architecture projects in the US and China. Her design is committed to improving cities’ economic and environmental sustainability, resilience, and quality of life. She founded Land.Space Architecture in 2019, an online educational platform committed to improving young professionals’ visualization skills in landscape architecture.

World Architecture Festival Architecture Book of the Year (2024)“This is an important study of an urgent crisis currently facing many parts of the world, intended to protect communities, their land, and buildings against global sea level rises. It contains ideas and practical solutions from expert contributors around the world. It can be seen as an important state-of-the-art manual for landscape architects, engineers, architects, developers, and politicians. It more than fits the bill by being a full-on technical guide.”Book of the Year Award Committee"In terms of the global implications of sea-level rise, the future is now. This book acknowledges the urgency of addressing the impacts of sea-level rise in coastal and other at-risk communities by focusing on solutions that address hard and soft engineering and design in a global context." - Dr. Jennifer Horney, Professor, Founding Director of the Epidemiology Program, Core Faculty of the Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware"This important book offers practical and evidence-driven design solutions for coastal communities threatened by sea level rise. Through illustrative case studies from around the world the authors offer a range of innovative structural and nature-based solutions that are critical to building community resilience. A must read for anyone interested in how resilience can be advanced through landscape architecture, urban design, and land use planning."- Dr. Phil Berke, Director, Center for Resilient Communities and Environment, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill"It is rare in the field of flood risk reduction to find international comparisons. Design for Sea Level Rise provides that and more. This book includes integrated analyses of eighteen flood cases from around the world. Impressively illustrated and presented, this piece of work will surely become the benchmark for landscape architects interested in addressing the increasing threat of flooding from sea level rise."- Dr. Samuel Brody, Director, Center for Texas Beaches and Shores, Professor, Department of Marine and Coastal Environmental Science, Texas A&M University at Galveston"With its range of well-illustrated case studies from around the world, Design for Sea Level Rise: Global Innovative Solutions seems likely to become an essential resource for designers and planners interested in this central sustainability challenge."- Dr. Stephen M. Wheeler, Professor, Department of Human Ecology, U.C. Davis"Sea level rise is much perceived as a worldwide problem not related to people's lives. In this insightful book, Newman and Qiao present a collection of global case studies to combat sea level rise. The design-based typologies and illustrated mechanisms provide valuable knowledge and resources for mitigating rising seas."- Charlene M. LeBleu, FCELA, FASLA, AICP, Professor, Landscape Architecture, Auburn University

• Section 1: Landscape Architecture and Sea Level Rise 1. Sea Level Rise as a Design and Planning Issue2. Global Strategies for Flood and Sea Level Rise MitigationSection 2: Global Design for Sea Level RiseStructural Heavy Design3. Jefferson Parish, New Orleans Region, Louisiana4. Tampa, FloridaNon-structural Heavy Design5. Busan, Korea6. Moakley Park, Boston, Massachusetts.7. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 8. Fisherman’s Bend, Victoria, Australia9. Island Bay, Greater Wellington Region of Aotearoa-New Zealand10. Wilmington, DelawareHybrid Heavy Design11. Franks Tract Futures, Sacramento: San Joaquin Delta, California12. Samut Sakhon, Bangkok Metropolitan Region, Thailand13. Port Saint Joe, Florida14. Miyagi Prefecture, Sendai, JapanBalanced Design15. Fleming Park, Baltimore, MD16. Sanya Dong’an Wetland Park, Hainan, China17. Houston-Galveston Metropolitan Statistical Area, League City, TXScenario-based Design18. Amsterdam and Western Scheldt Regions, the Netherlands19. Miami, Florida20. Christchurch, Canterbury Region, Aotearoa New Zealand Section 3: Innovative Solutions for Sea Level Rise 21. Structural Mechanisms22. Non-structural Mechanisms23. Hybrid Mechanisms24. The Urban Periculum: A Landscape at Risk from Sea Level Rise