Urban riverbanks are attractive locations and highly prized recreational environments. The designs of urban river landscapes must fulfill a broad range of requirements: flood control, open space design, and ecology are as a rule the three dominant themes, and they must often be reconciled within a very restricted space. The river must be understood as a process: governed by changing water levels, shifting seasons, erosion, and sedimentation, the river environment is not a static entity but constantly changing—the design must be flexible and take this into account. This book is the product of a multi-year study that subjected more than fifty Western European projects to a comparative analysis. The result is a systematic catalog of effective strategies and innovative design elements. First, designers and planners are given an overview of the broad and varied spectrum of design possibilities. The book’s process-oriented approach is especially helpful where the focus is on long-term, sustainable measures. The publication consists of two linked volumes that enable the reader to consult the systematic catalog and the case study section side by side. The easy-to-navigate structure and an extensive glossary provide further guidance, while the work’s highly distinctive design makes it visually appealing as well and invites the reader to leaf through and explore it.城市河岸是吸引人的地方和高度重视的娱乐环境。城市河流景观的设计必须满足广泛的要求：防洪、开放空间设计和生态作为一项原则，是三大主题，它们往往必须在一个非常有限的空间内协调。河流必须被理解为一个过程：受水位变化、季节变化、侵蚀和沉积的制约，河流环境不是一个静态的实体，而是不断变化的-设计必须灵活，并考虑到这一点。 这本书是多年的研究成果，对50多个西欧项目进行了比较分析。其结果是一个系统的目录，有效的战略和创新的设计要素。首先，设计师和规划者被给予了一个广泛而多样的设计可能性的概述。这本书的过程导向的方法是特别有帮助的重点是长期的，可持续的措施。该出版物由两个链接的卷组成，使读者能够同时查阅系统目录和案例研究部分。易于浏览的结构和广泛的词汇表提供了进一步的指导，而作品的高度独特的设计也使它的视觉吸引力以及邀请读者浏览和探索。
Part2推荐理由
深入浅出的一本书，用极其简明生动的图示阐述了河流及其变换原理，过程，结果。
目前读过在景观滨水设计方面最简明易懂和全面的书籍。推荐景观，城市设计和建筑设计等相关领域阅读~
River.Space.Design. by a team of European landscape architecture professors, says we must rethink our single-use, massively engineered rivers, offering multi-dimensional strategies for riverside design that benefit river ecology, improve flood protection, and expand human amenities. These strategies are laid out in the form of an extensive catalog that documents numerous design ideas abstracted from successful projects across Europe. These strategies for multi-functional river design are presented in a language that is intended to be comprehensible across a range of relevant disciplines: landscape architecture, ecological science, engineering, and planning. Indeed, the book states that it “can serve as a handbook for interdisciplinary teams and a basis for reaching mutual understanding.”
With its clear language and impeccable organization and design, River.Space.Design. serves not only as a great resource for design ideas and examples, but also as a challenge to how we consider rivers in an urban context. The book does not view river design in terms of an idealized notion of what a river should be, but instead bases its strategies on dynamic river processes. 《 河道.空间.设计》以其清晰的语言和无可挑剔的组织和设计，不仅是设计理念和实例的重要资源，也是我们如何在城市环境中看待河道的挑战。这本书并不是以理想化的河道应该是什么概念，而是以动态的河流过程为基础来看待河道设计。
SOURCE：《 River.Space.Design.》
Dynamic river processes are not seen as something to repress or obscure, but instead as opportunities to enhance ecology, flood protection, and aesthetics. In the book’s introduction, the author writes, “What has been lacking up to date is an overview that presents the wide diversity of design possibilities for urban river spaces in a systematic and transferable way. This book aims to fill this gap and serve as a primer and reference for designers of urban spaces.” River.Space.Design. is absolutely successful in this regard and will hopefully inspire designers to find ways new ways to engage their community’s rivers
This book is simply brilliant and really is new classic reference for all those interested in rivers, whether engineer, landscape architect, urban planner, ecologist, city, environmental activist or interested citizen. The applicable content of the book is excellent.the division of the book into tools and case studies is actually very helpful as it helps pick out design principals which can then be applied to other projects. I have had this book many years and I have come back to it again and again for inspiration and information. This book in terms of a comprehensive overview of the potential of river design and including numerous urban examples. The understanding of river dynamics within real-world design constraints is outstanding. The graphic layout of the book is so clever that it is equally accessible for professionals as for non-professionals. The book seems pricy, but in terms of what you get for your money it is absolutely worth it, and it is basically two books in one anyway. This is a book which empowers its readers. For all those interested in blue-green infrastructure, blue-green cities or ecological services, this is the real thing. 这本书非常精彩，对于所有对河流感兴趣的人来说，无论是工程师、景观设计师、城市规划师、生态学家、城市、环境学家还是感兴趣的市民，都是一个新的经典参考。将这本书分为工具和案例研究实际上非常有帮助，因为它有助于挑选设计原则，然后将其应用到其他项目中。我有这本书很多年了，我一次又一次地回来寻找灵感和信息。 本书就河流设计的潜力进行了全面的概述，并包括了众多的城市实例。在现实设计约束条件下，对河流动力学的理解是非常突出的。这本书的平面布局非常巧妙，使专业人士和非专业人士都能使用。 这本书似乎很贵，但就你的钱所得到的来说，它绝对值得，而且它基本上是两本合一的书。这是一本赋予读者力量的书。对于所有对blue-green 基础设施、blue-green 城市或生态服务感兴趣的人来说，这是非常值得的。
