The Transitory Edge:Climate Change and the New Waterfront

The paper is the study of the environmental influence for the future development of waterfront city.It is proposed to change the existing waterfront area development model with a new understanding,namely regarding the waterfront area as the place interacted by dynamic landscape factors(urban ones as well as ecological ones).The meaning of the idea is explored,and the meaning of this transformation is discussed with the case study of some designs in China and New Zealand.A waterfront area development program of Auckland,New Zealand,and a new town development program of the Bohai Sea Delta are used as two examples to demonstrate the way to renovate city features through the systematic pattern of natural and artificial landscape.