List of figures List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgments Foreword Carola Hein Introduction Pernice Raffaele, Tetsuya Yaguchi Part 1 - Water and the City in the early 21st Century. Architectural and Urban Dimensions: Case Studies Japan 1) A Metabolist Utopia in the Crisis of a Flooded Society Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi, Alice Covatta 2) Urban life on the Water. Concepts, Models and Prototypes for Marine Habitats in Japan 1958-2025 Raffaele Pernice 3) Tokyo Waterfront Urban Planning and Disaster Resilience: An Unforgettable Memory George Kurumado 4) Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning and Consensus Building in Riverfront Neighbourhoods through Risk Communication. A Case of "Nige Chizu" Creation in Totsuka District, Shinjuku, Tokyo Tetsuya Yaguchi 5) Resilience in Tokyo William Galloway 6) From Shipyards to Skylines: The Evolution of Yokohama's Waterfront Heide Imai 7) Waterfront Restoration in Yokohama after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923Focusing on the Reconstruction of Yokohama Harbor and Canals Yunlian Chen Part 2 - Water and the City in the early 21st Century. Architectural and Urban Dimensions: Case Studies International 8) Venice Floods: an Urban Morphology Perspective Paola Favaro 9) Waterfront Regeneration and Vitality in Hong Kong Central Hee Sun 'Sunny' Choi 10) Affordable Floating Communities: How can Human Life on Water be made Attractive and Socially Sustainable for Larger Communities? Harry den Hartog 11) Small-Scale Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Flood Mitigation in the Tropical High-density Cities: A Case of Bangkok's Polder Areas Theeraporn Premchaiswadi 12) San Francisco Waterfront Resilience Program Draft Plan Adam Varat, Luiz Barata 13) Waterfronts as Shared Heritage: Balancing Heritage Conservation and Climate Change Mitigation in Metro Vancouver's waterfront areas Yiting Pan 14) Climate Adaptation in Sydney Waterfront Planning Management Nan Ye, Jing Li 15) Exit the Waterfront. Enter Coastal Landscape Design: A Case Study of the Mekong Delta Bruno De Meulder, Kelly Shannon 16) Reformulating Peri-urban Landscape Guidelines to Maintain Stormwater Management Capacity in Low-lying Developing Cities: a case of Phnom Penh Sokuncharia Srey Afterword Helen Lochhead Index.