ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights resilient urban design examples that respond to the Cloudburst Management Plan in Copenhagen, Denmark. These use nature-based design approaches to better connect people and environmental performance with the goal of resiliency in the face of extreme weather and climate change. This chapter foregrounds how resilient designs can benefit people and our environment, shape our attitudes to the natural world, and amplify our sensory experiences of spaces and places. Research and practice in architectural design is beginning to reframe the focus of resilience as having a shared vision with sustainability, towards a more performance-process-based approach. Three examples are examined: Tåsinge Square by GHB Landscape Architects (completed 2014), Sankt Kjelds Square and Bryggervangen Road by SLA (completed 2019), and Hans Tavsens Park and Korsgade by SLA (starts construction 2019). Each climate-adapted renovation addresses multiple parameters of flooding and extreme weather by providing socially sustainable environments with new green leisure spaces in the city.
