ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to position urban design as central to flood risk management strategies, advancing an evolutionary resilience framework and design principles, operationalized through green infrastructure (GI) at the urban scale. It identifies and critically examines three alternative approaches and associated design philosophies in response to the problem of urban flooding. These approaches are characterized by different functional objectives, namely: persistence, adaptation and transformation. Designing for flood risk management is a complex endeavour often involving many variables, uncertainty, large temporal and spatial scales, and a multitude of agents. The chapter examines the potential of the GI approach as a means to realize evolutionary resilience in designing urban environments for enhanced drainage management. It discusses the GI approach as a means for realizing evolutionary resilience in urban flood risk management. The chapter focuses on the role of GI in adapting and transforming urban places in the context of increased flood risk.
