Resilient Cities under Global Climate Change

Junqing Tang, Assistant Professor in Urban Resilience and Sustainability, School of Urban Planning and Design, Peking University, China, Qiuchen Lu, Professor in Digital Built Asset and Facility Management, The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, UK, Pengjun Zhao, Professor, School of Urban Planning and Design, Peking University, China, Ioannis Brilakis, Laing O'Rourke Professor of Civil and Information Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK, Tim Broyd, Professor of Built Environment Foresight, The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, UK and Long Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong

• Contents1 Resilient cities under global climate change: overview andprinciples 1Wei Lyu, Junqing Tang, Qiuchen Lu, Pengjun Zhao, IoannisBrilakis and Tim Broyd2 Global climate changes: disasters and impacts 18Lingzhi Ye and Junqing Tang3 Strategy and assessment approaches of resilient cities 45Zijing Zhang and Junqing Tang4 Policy of global resilient cities development 63Duo Ma and Long Chen5 Digital innovation and technologies development for resilientcities 85Jiayi Yan, Ya Wen, Xifan (Jeff) Chen and Qiuchen Lu6 Safety and well-being of resilient cities development 113Zhigang Zhao and Junqing Tang7 Resilient London transportation systems under flooding 135Xuhui Lin, Qiuchen Lu, Neil Gunn and Simon Sølvsten8 Cooling strategies for tackling urban heat in Singapore 146Mingxun Cai, Junqing Tang and Wei Lyu9 Enhanced wildfire management in Canada and the UnitedStates 170Shufan Zhang and Junqing Tang10 Sponge city practice in China 200Qianli Ma and Junqing Tang11 Japan’s comprehensive efforts to mitigate damage fromearthquake hazards 221Zengjun Guo and Junqing Tang12 Future development of resilient cities 244Lingzhi Ye, Junqing Tang, Qiuchen Lu, Pengjun Zhao andIoannis Brilakis

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