Delta Design Futures

The book addresses the urgency to counter the risks posed to the delta city-region by proposing scenarios for urban growth.

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The Pearl River Delta region has
been severely engineered throughout its process of historical emergence.
As it is about to confront a new wave of changes in the present century
driven by economic growth, industrial activity, and growth of maritime
operations, the book proposes 'endurance' as a way of urban design in
the Pearl River Delta region to organise space around the changing
frontiers between territory inhabited by people and the South China Sea.
The book addresses the urgency to counter the risks posed to the delta
city-region by proposing scenarios for urban growth.


The design
futures for the Pearl River Delta are formed by acknowledging the
socio-political drift towards one direction above another, which
influences the future organisation or reorganisation of space. The
historical emergence of the river delta highlights the fact that it is
conditioned to multiple directives and multiple transformations, which
at the same time makes it exemplary yet idiosyncratic. Therefore, the
scenarios of city-region development presented in the book, depict an
integration of systems of flows, and the symbiosis of conflicting
powers. A series of specific questions lead to principles that drive
each future growth trajectory, which is represented through a series of
diagrammatic logics in order to organise space through structures of
landscape systems and those of new territories and networks.