Living with Nature-Envision Future Living in SHE-ZI Island

Abstract

This paper aims at changing the public concept of flooding and the way people prevent flooding Most cities rely on pumps and dikes to keep them from flooding The concept of urban resilience purposes on building the living district flexible to flooding adaptable to climate change and endurable to environmental impact In this respect future cities and developing cities should take resilience design into serious consideration She-Zi island a river shoal area at the confluence of two downstream is the main research object in this paper Setting up the urban design regulations and architecture building code which are based on the simulation results predicted by Physiographic Soil Erosion-Deposition Model (PSED) in the Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering in National Cheng Kung University speculates a future aspect of living with water and urban regulation design Approaches to living with water and building a resilient city differ from culture to culture and from climate to climate Therefore the main concept of urban regulation in this paper is originated from the urban regulations in New York City set up by The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) The case study in flooding zoning and regulation reflects the existing regulations in Taiwan This paper offers initial planning and scenario of living with water in She-Zi Island that is expected to provoke the public conscious of urban resilience flooding measures and design regulations

Date of Award	2019
Original language	English
Supervisor	Maw-Chang Yen (Supervisor)