Peripheral: Resilient Hydrological Infrastructures

This article addresses the issue of developing designs resilient hydrological infrastructures for cities facing sea level rise in Anthropocene. It undertakes short case studies differently scaled cities, three Global North and South. The aim is to investigate current water management situations order reveal potentials increased urban environmental resilience. Cities are approached as complex adaptive systems (CAS) negotiating uncertainty that concerns designing resilience, understood viable transitions their interlinked social, ecological, technological (SETS). main finding that, despite obvious differences, six cases surprisingly similar. Potentials resilience reside design approaches work with what currently deprivileged considered ‘merely’ peripheral. Peripheral peripheries coastal found be key rather than minor infrastructural import. To reprivilege peripheral here means adopt more dynamically flexible, long-term, decentralized, nonanthropocentric infrastructures. Specifically, this advocates thinking about via at least four critical displacements. These displacements point toward alternatives concerning excessively static land-based designs, short-term planning, overly anthropocentric conceptions city environment distinction, undue centrism planetary urbanization In conclusion, presents a brief outlook other which suggest greater likely planning complexly ecotone city. works mostly bottom-up from local regimes sensitive regional network can engage larger climatic ecological landscapes.