Fuzzy Boundaries

Thresholds Between Water and Land
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-83556-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Project Thinking on Design

Fuzzy Boundaries: Threshold between water and land is a curated selection of reflections on the boundaries between water and land, and its meaning amidst climate change, social, economic and political challenges. By engaging with form and contemplating the frictions and quiet conflicts that inhabit transitional spaces, the authors suggest that fuzziness - viewed through varied geographical and cultural lenses - holds the potential to reveal deeper layers of meaning.

The book is structured as a journey ‘from reading to design’, guiding readers through stages that may be understood as moving from analysis and interpretation, to drawing, modelling, and designing, and ultimately to implementation and [un]building - offering deeper insight into the thresholds between land and water. Readers are invited to critically reflect on the representation of boundaries: what is depicted, how it is portrayed, and through which scales and perspectives. Fuzzy Boundaries brings together case studies from across the globe, revealing how distinct realities intersect and coexist, while exploring strategies to confront the challenges currently facing people, water, and land. The sequence of chapters forms a body of knowledge aimed at supporting future initiatives in conservation, adaptation, and transformation amid growing urban and environmental challenges.

The book is directed at students, researchers, practitioners and decision-makers, in a call to consider fuzziness in project design thinking.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dal Cin, Francesca

Lima, Joana de Mesquita

Proenca, Sergio Barreiros

Proença, Sérgio Barreiros

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Design: Allgemeines & Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

At The Edge of Water and Land

A New Fuzzy Boundary?

Water Re-Claims

From Reading to Design: Framing the Fuzziness

1. Drawing With Water: The Bogotá River Territory

2. We All Might Inhabit Margins: Hyperlocality in the Planetary Salt Marsh

3. The Form in the Fog: Revealing the Seashore Limenes

4. People-Water-City: Village Urban Form Shaped by Water-Retaining Pond System

5. Curating, Creating and Protecting Fuzziness in the Zambezi River Basin and in Maputo’s Costa Do Sol, Mozambique

6. Touching Water: Modelling Urban River Sections as a Learning Experience

7. Floating Developments: The Next Chapter in Dutch Delta Management?

8. Blurred Lines: A Systems Thinking Approach to Water-Land Interaction in Semarang, Indonesia

9. Managing Sea Space Through Dynamic Boundaries: The Evolution Of Maritime Spatial Planning and the Italian Experience.

A Call for Fuzziness in Uncertain Times: Rethinking Thresholds

Beyond The Boundaries

Mapping Fuzzy Boundaries

Landscape With Characteristics. Against The Polytechnical Solution

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Francesca Dal Cin is an Architect and Urban Planner (Università IUAV di Venezia, 2013 & 2017) PhD in Urbanism (Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa, 2022). Her research interests include the coastal urban forms vulnerable to sea-level rise.

Joana de Mesquita Lima is a Geographer and Development Planner (University College London, 2001 & 2002) and a PhD candidate in Urbanism (Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa). Her research interests include the urban global south, housing and vulnerable territories.

Sérgio Barreiros Proença is an Architect and a PhD in Urbanism (Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa, 2001 & 2014). Assistant Professor at the Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Saint Joseph. His research interests focus on the urban form morphology and morphogenesis, on urban landscape time and temporality, and on the relation between the sea and the city.