Nature-based and Climate Responsive Design for Urban Systems

Chapter 1. Cities Can No Longer Outsmart Nature: Designing with Ecological Systems in the Climate Era.- Part I. Water-Sensitive and Community-Scale Nature-Based Urban Systems.- Chapter 2. Designing Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Village Regeneration.- Chapter 3. Inclusive blue-green public open spaces: learning from Tansen, Nepal .- Chapter 4. From Principles to Design: Sustainable Urban Drainage with Decentralized and Nature-Based Solutions in Developing Economies.- Chapter 5. Sustainable Water Management in the Built Environment: Ground Cover Plants as a Solution.- Chapter 6. Urban Water in the Age of Climate Crisis: Potentials of Water Sensitive Urban Design Strategies for Gopalganj City, Bangladesh.- Part II. Ecological Systems, Coastal Resilience, and Inter-Scalar Urban Futures.- Chapter 7. Small Coastal Cities Under Climate Pressure: Nature as Infrastructure and Lessons from Morondava, Avarua, Honiara, and Cairns.- Chapter 8. Interscaler Design for a Rewilded City: A Case Study of the Green Monterrey Metropolis.- Chapter 9. Climate-Responsive Coastal Design: Mangrove-Based Urban Resilience in Port Vila, Vanuatu.- Chapter 10. Cities Must Learn from Nature or Fail with It: From Adaptation to Transformation by Reimagining Urban Systems with Nature.