Rising Tides & Climate Change: A Discourse on Density vs. Capacity
Globally, rising seas threaten coastal cities that millions of people call home. As global temperatures continue to warm, the sea level will continue to rise. The amount it will rise is dependent on the rate of future carbon dioxide emissions, while how fast it will rise is dependent on the rate of glacier and ice sheet melting.
At the current melting rate, the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica could melt entirely within the next one thousand years causing a twenty-three-foot rise in sea level, completely swallowing coastal cities such as Amsterdam. Amsterdam is facing a twenty percent increase in population in the next twenty years alone, but cannot currently accommodate such an increase of people in the most desirable yet overly populated area, the Centrum.
How can a carbon-neutral housing stock mitigate the effects of global warming on coastal cities around the world?
This book is a full, detailed explanation of my Thesis Project, completed in my 5th and final year of my BARCH at NYIT. This was a year long thesis, starting Fall 2019 and finishing Spring 2020.
