![Design for Flooding: Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design for Resilience to Climate Change](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_shf9B7K0nHRtosVAHTmw27IMTSKxd7DzCjhYocLIEP9RwNcVI99RLjddNSsJhwNrULwoYVeLr3WBgr-gibJz9ThQcOsaWuh7h3mhQ4WPKMr-YfjYAEPecl47VsG8c_js_mRciY_SyfZ43W3LGlLgF-WF0FlhYhxCzwTbsLOSUpa2JQX63xIdWo-Jg_YG82DPo2gvaVECEblUiyG-AQ5g2AiftScH6K=s0-d)
The book "
Design for Flooding: Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design for Resilience to Climate Change![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tO0Ylx9YgkqgoyjIICbJxO-A_RxS7Hgksx3Q89IIFXV1vBYCiLvH2gLBT3AlyoPUH_XHNW8ExgMrVawc7YFOyb1xyDpjIzTsoIs46onGNHjcskivGlyAXqkSDWD98-w0vi_NS17KYm5shS36PYFdtx7mr_AA=s0-d)
" by Donald Watson and Michele Adams is a timely work. This discusses the causes of flooding and the engineering, planning, architectural and social responses which can be made. Relevant to Queensland is a discussion of the role of elevated houses, such as the traditional Queen slander design of a wooden house on tall stumps
The book does undo some of the good sensible work of the main body of the work with a few chapters at the back with speculation about floating houses and cities. But the rest is useful, practical advice.
The work is also avialable as an e-book in a
Kindle edition![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_u1664zYkgGMEfljdg-sucOxy2jgGexlViccnG7WdjP3UQ-v2SNt6cnLKyTSrGh6soOu2E0jvygKa0P2xJ5yQZt_IlCC3S1kyV7DpW6FggWg-srjamSM7t14RJNxWgql9WNqveRRfzMQglLCfOnkTv25qpcZQ=s0-d)
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