In 2008, Hurricane Ike devastated Bolivar Peninsula, narrowly missing the more heavily
industrialized and populated areas in the region. In the aftermath of the hurricane, the Severe …

… is a contribution of TU-Delft to this research, … design, which includes solutions for flood
defence and water management and which means the necessity of a new fusion of spatial design …

… content of design at the regional scale : In what sense can design play a … delta landscape,
which is an interesting model through which to discuss the need of a new approach in design …

… several development periods of urbanized deltas like the Mississippi River delta and the
Dutch Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta. In the current period, both deltas find themselves in a …

… A delta can be defined as the area where two different … The Dutch delta is a sea-dominated
delta, as a result of the meeting of … delta with a river-dominated delta like the Mississippi delta, …

… For the Delta region, this resulted in design water levels corresponding to a probability of l/4000.
Up to this point, only the storm-surge (still) water level has been considered. Other …

… A consortium of the Dutch Delta programme, Delft University, … A process of research by design,
organized in a series of … be adopted by the new Dutch delta programme. While the second …

… This article describes the history of the interaction between the Delta and the Dutch, with
the present hydraulic sociotechnical ensemble as the outcome. This result can be understood …

… The Wadden region and the Southwestern Delta function … The Southwestern Delta is well
known for the Delta Works, a … , and professionals from Delft University of Technology from …

… at the Eastern Scheldt Delta-Expo provides a perspective on the mesh of natural hydrodynamic
features and structural design incorporated into the Delta works. The Dutch are world …