In this practical, engaging text, Miho Mazereeuw - who has carried out ethnographic fieldwork and space-based analysis for more than two decades - offers a detailed framework to design and prepare for anticipated disasters and describes effective interventions in urban landscape and architecture.

"Examines spaces used for disaster preparedness, adaptation, mitigation, response, and recovery and shares methods, policies, and projects, to suggest a framework for anticipatory design around the globe. Draws on interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, and space-based analyses of examples from across Japan, across several centuries, and across scales, from buildings to park systems to the city at large"--