Abstract
Population growth and urbanization mainly take place in vulnerable coastal areas. This article presents a global overview of these areas with both rapid population growth and high flood risk, in order to identify coastal areas that could benefit most from floating urban development. The analysis focuses on port cities, since they are coastal cities that have both availability of locations and the required expertise (e.g. maritime industry and services) to enable floating developments. After identifying the most promising locations, an implementation strategy is discussed, which favours areas where floating projects are already present to start testing medium and large-scale concepts. Next, a large scale floating maritime spatial project is presented, which integrates urban and ecosystem development with food and energy production in the North Sea. This plan provides a spatial concept for floating urban expansion in front of the coast of the Netherlands.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Angel, S., Parent, J., Civco, D. L & Blei, A. M. (2012). Atlas of urban expansion. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Cambridge, Massachusetts
Biggs, M., & Buchler, D. (2008). Eight criteria for practice-based research in the creative and cultural industries. Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 7(1), 5–18.
Blue21. (2016). 7 Reasons why our future is on the water. Available at: http://www.blue21.nl/7-reasons-why-our-future-is-on-the-water/ visited: March 2019.
Blue21 (2019). BlueRevolution. Available at: https://www.blue21.nl/portfolio/blue-revolution-4/. Visited: June 2019
Blue21 and Topsector Water (2016). Icoonproject Atlantis 2050. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaALXa3Bp7o (in Dutch) visited June 2018.
Dal Bo Zanon, B., Roeffen, B., Czapiewska, K. M., De Graaf-Van Dinther, R. E., & Mooij, P. R. (2017). Potential of floating production for delta and coastal cities. Journal of Cleaner Production, 151, 10–20.
De Graaf, R. E. (2012). Adaptive urban development: A symbiosis between cities on land and water in the 21st century. The Netherlands: Rotterdam University Press.
DeltaSync/Blue21 (2013) Seasteading Implementation Plan. Final Concept Report. Available at: http://2oxut21weba5oivlniw6igeb.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wpcontent/uploads/2015/12/DeltaSync-Final-Concept-Report.pdf.Vistited: June 2019
DeltaSync/Blue21 (2014). Information Brochure Floating Pavilion Rotterdam. Available at: https://www.slideshare.net/rutgerdegraaf/information-brochure-floating-pavilion-rotterdam. Visited July 2018.
De Graaf, R. E., Van de Ven, F. H. M., & Van de Giesen, N. C. (2007). The Closed City as a strategy to reduce vulnerability of urban areas for climate change. Water Science and Technology, 56(4), 165–173.
Hallegatte, S., Green, C., Nicholls, R. J., & Corfee-Morlot, J. (2013). Future flood losses in major coastal cities. Nature Climate Change, 3(9), 802–806.
Hanson, S., Nicholls, R., Ranger, N., Hallegatte, S., Corfee-Morlot, J., Herweijer, C., et al. (2011). A global ranking of port cities with high exposure to climate extremes. Climatic Change, 104, 89–111.
Maskell, D., Thomson, A., & Walker, P. (2018). Multi-criteria selection of building materials. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Construction Materials, 171(2), 49–58.
Moon, C. H. (2012). A study on the sustainable features of realized and planned floating buildings. Journal of Navigation and Port Research, International Edition, 36(2), 113–121.
National Science Agenda. (2017). Available at: https://wetenschapsagenda.nl/publicatie/nationale-wetenschapsagenda-nederlands/ Visited: July 2018.
Novotny, V., & Brown, P. (2014). Cities of the future—towards integrated sustainable water and landscape management. Water Intelligence Online 13.
Roeffen, B., Dal Bo Zanon, B., Czapiewska, K. M., & De Graaf, R. E. (2013). Reducing global land scarcity with floating urban development and food production. In Conference Proceedings: International Water Week. Amsterdam, 8Â pp.
Shimizu Corporation (2008). Green Float. Available at: https://www.shimz.co.jp/en/topics/dream/content03/. Visited: June 2019
Takahashi, P. (1996). Project blue revolution. Journal of Energy Engineering, 122(3), 114–124.
Topsector Water. (2016). Blauwe Revolutie. Available at http://www.topsectorwater.nl/blauwe-revolutie/. Visited: July 2018 (in Dutch).
Topsectoren. (2018). Available at: https://www.topsectoren.nl/.
Topsectoren (2016). Available at: https://www.topsectoren.nl/. Visited: July 2018 (in Dutch).
United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. (2014). World urbanization prospects: The 2014 revision, CD-ROM edition. Population Division 2014.
Wang, C. M., & Wang, B. T. (2015). Large floating structures: technological advances. Ocean Engineering & Oceanography, 3, 261–280.
Wong, T. H. F., & Brown, R. R. (2009). The water sensitive city: Principles for practice. Water Science and Technology, 60(3), 673–682.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2020 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
About this paper
Cite this paper
Dal Bo Zanon, B., Roeffen, B., Czapiewska, K.M., de Graaf-van Dinther, R.E. (2020). Potential of Floating Urban Development for Coastal Cities: Analysis of Flood Risk and Population Growth. In: Wang, C., Lim, S., Tay, Z. (eds) WCFS2019. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , vol 41. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8743-2_17
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8743-2_17
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-13-8742-5
Online ISBN: 978-981-13-8743-2
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)