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‘Water as Leverage’: design-led planning for urban climate resilience

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: To prepare for the impacts of climate change, many Asian cities aim to become climate resilient. This calls for innovative, integrative, inclusive, and transformative planning approaches. Although design is advocated as a means to develop such approaches, it remains unclear what a design-led planning approach actually entails. This paper explores the design-led planning approach of the ‘Water as Leverage’ (WaL) programme, and investigates how it unfolded in Semarang, Indonesia. We found that WaL was able to develop promising proposals by employing the potential of design. However, future design-led planning initiatives can benefit from more receptivity to local situations and initiatives.

Source: Planning Practice and Research

DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2022.2104322

Authors: Annet Kempenaar, Naim Laeni, Margo van den Brink, Tim Busscher, Henk Ovink

Institutions: University of Groningen, Thammasat University, Government of Netherlands

Language: English

Topic: Sustainability and Climate Change Governance

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Climate action, Clean water and sanitation

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek