Resilient Communities: How a spatial framework can contribute to resilient flood-risk protection, while improving the living quality of communities.

Resilient Communities: How a spatial framework can contribute to resilient flood-risk protection, while improving the living quality of communities.

Willemse, B.

Nillesen, A. (mentor)
Nijhuis, S. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Urbanism

Delta Interventions

2014-06-24

The subject of this graduation project is Resilient Communities; designing flood-risk protection measures that will increase the social and spatial quality of different communities, increasing the quality of live. The location chosen to develop this project is Coney Island, an urbanized peninsula located on the Atlantic coast of New York City. This area is characterized by a wide variety of communities and water related hazards. Current flood defense measures do not take the occupation, network, or social conditions into account even tough different approaches have a different impact on the spatial and social aspects of a community. This project will deal with these issues.

resilient flood-risk protection
resilient communities
framework urbanism
eco-system based coastal defense
Coney Island

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Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2014 Willemse, B.