The book “Urbanism and Adaptation to Climate Change – As Frentes de Água”, by João Pedro Costa, is presented on June 19, at 21 pm, at the Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Municipal Library, in Loulé.
“Adaptation to climate change is an emerging agenda, with the particularity of configuring a dynamic bottom-up. As the scientific community advances with climate change scenarios for the medium and long term, the territorial sciences are faced with the need to assess their consequences and incorporate them into the planning process», explains the City Council of Loulé .
«More than new stable realities, this meeting of areas of knowledge, interdisciplinary, comes to concretize the planning and planning in a context of uncertainty that characterizes the third modernity. The estimated impacts being alarming, the book focuses on the water fronts, still a sufficient field to identify the challenges facing cities and the territory», adds the municipality.
This work «introduces a new disciplinary issue, supported by a reading of international cases and complemented by a first approximation to reality in Lisbon», stresses the Chamber.
Eight challenges are also proposed for the encounter between adaptation to climate change and urbanism, developed with a particular focus on the design of the city.
“This work demonstrates that the encounter between urbanism and adaptation to climate change is on the ground. Which is accompanied by several issues. Is it still time to look to the side?”, asks the Loulé Council.
João Pedro Costa is an architect (Faculty of Architecture – FA – of the Technical University of Lisbon – UTL -, 1993), Master in Contemporary Architectural Culture (FA/UTL, 1998), Ph.D. in Urbanism (Higher Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona, 2007 ) and aggregated in Urbanism (FA/Universidade Lisboa, 2012).
This initiative takes place within the scope of “Open Books”.
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