Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

A hydrological tragedy in three acts : introduction / Seth McDowell -- People and the rising sea / Orrin Pilkey and Rob Young -- Catastrophe / Tracy Metz -- The Delta works project / Benjamin Gregory -- The spectacle of water and machine : the ideologies at work in the Bonnet Carre Spillway openings of 1937 and 2011 / Travis K. Bost -- Hydropolis / Marion Ottman, Margaux Leycuras and Anne-Hina Mallette -- Governors Island Park / West 8 and Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects -- Connections on uncertain ground / Benjamin Gregory and Ed Ford -- Aranzadi Park / Aldayjover Architecture and Landscape -- Swamp thing : Smart grid, smarter water management in New Orleans / Isaac Cohen, Kate Hayes, and Jorg Sieweke -- Watersquare Benthemplein / De Urbanisten -- The bacteriological city and its discontents / Matthew Gandy -- Bringing the serpent's tail into the serpent's mouth : Edwin Chadwick and the 'sanitary idea' in England / Martin V. Melosi -- Deepwater Horizon oil spill / Benjamin Gregory -- Whitney water purification facility + park / Steven Holl Architects and Michael Van Valkenburgh and Associates -- Seeping boundaries : informal infrastructures of dirt., demolition, and sewage in the West Bank / Suzanne Harris-Brandts -- Dendritic zoning : establishing a new urban gradient in the Garden State / Kimberly Garza -- A green sponge for a water-resilient city : Qunli Stormwater Park / Turenscape -- Shanghai Houtan Park : landscape as a living system / Turenscape -- Vintondale Reclamation Park / D.I.R.T.. Studio -- Parallel networks / Op.N (Ali Fard and Ghazal Jafari) -- Water core home / Dan Williamson, David Karle, and Sarah Thomas Karle -- Detoxi-city / Zuhal Kol, Rodney Bell, and Julia Gamolina -- The urban spring : formalizing the water system of Los Angeles / William Morrish -- Reconstructing the void : Owens Lake / Barry Lehrman -- Draining the oasis / Benjamin Gregory -- Sea tree / Waterstudio -- Winton Wetland restoration / Taylor Cullity Lethlean -- Lima beyond the park / Antje Stokman, Bernd Eisenberg, Eva Nemcova, and Rossana Poblet -- Wash : urban hydrological networks for resilient cultural ecologies / Aja Bulla-Richards -- Immaterial water / Izaskun Gonzalez Barredo and Oriol Valls Guinovart.