ABSTRACT
We live in ‘yesterday’s’ cities. Many of the urban patterns that we see today-such as city layouts, buildings, roads and land ownership-are legacies of up to a century and a half of urban policy and decision-making; even longer in some of our cities. Tomorrow’s
Exploring sea level rise as the opportunity for a new diverse edge along San Francisco’s industrial eastern waterfront (Rising Tides, International competition for Sea Level Rise, 2009)
How do we build in an area that is dry now, but that may be wet in the future? How do we retrot existing shoreline infrastructure, such as shipping ports, highways, airports, power plants and wastewater treatment plants? Can we imagine a different shoreline conguration or settlement pattern that allows temporary inundation from
extreme storm events? And how do we provide ood protection inland of marshes without drowning the wetland when the water rises?
