Interaction between urban spatial organization and flood risk, Taipei case study

Fang-Yu Hu (1)

1 IPRAUS - Institut Parisien de Recherche Architecture Urbanistique Société

Nowadays, the dikes and high walls constructions in the water shore are the solution to protect from flooding in urban areas. However, the rapid and dense urbanization also the climate change indicate the danger of this solution. The urban planning recent research proposes to preserve and to make urban space for water in order to contribute on flood risk management. By this concept, water could be considered as one of urban key components which trace over urban contemporary forms/patterns. Our research questions the relation or the interaction between the urban space and the flood risk. These analyses contribute to improve the actual prevention and management of flood risk in urban areas. We are especially interested in the spatial urban planning, considered as an item, as an arrangement also as a built organization, and its relation with flooding risk. We take the city of Taipei as our case study, and we plan to compare it with the other case studies of CORFU (Collaborative Research on Flood Resilience in urban area, FP7).

Mots clés: Urban spatial organization; flood; climate change; non-structural solution; Taipei

Domaines: Environnement et Société

Fang-Yu Hu. Interaction between urban spatial organization and flood risk, Taipei case study. 11th edition of the World Wide Workshop for Young Environmental Scientists (WWW-YES-2011) - Urban Waters: resource or risks?, Jun 2011, Arcueil, France. ⟨hal-00607838⟩