View No. 31 (2018): Integrated Urban River Corridors
No. 31 (2018)
Integrated Urban River Corridors

Claudiu Forgaci

382 pages

ISBN 978-94-6366-109-6

Published: 2018-12-24

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  • Integrated Urban River Corridors Spatial design for social-ecological resilience in Bucharest and beyond

    Claudiu Forgaci
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    The issue of urban resilience concerns a multitude of urban systems and spaces. This thesis focuses on Urban River Corridors (URCs)—that is, urban spaces where the overlap between the urban systems (carrying the ’social-‘) and the river system (carrying the ‘-ecological’) is at the highest intensity—as strategic spaces with a potentially high contribution to urban resilience. The general hypothesis is that with an integrated spatial understanding, planning and design of rivers and the...