Dr. Galen D. Newman is Associate Professor and Interim Department Head in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University. He also serves as the Director of the Center for Housing and Urban Development. Dr. Newman's research overlaps the fields of community resilience, land use science, urban analytics, landscape performance and advanced visualization. He has published over 70 peer reviewed articles in high-quality journals and has received over 31 million dollars in interdisciplinary funded research projects.

Zixu Qiao has a Master of Landscape Architecture from Texas A&M University. She is a professional landscape architect, guest speaker at University of Guelph, and the founder of Land.Space Architecture. Her work includes research, design, and planning on a variety of site planning and landscape architecture projects in the US and China. Her design is committed to improving cities' economic and environmental sustainability, resilience, and quality of life. She founded Land.Space Architecture in 2019, an online educational platform committed to improving young professionals' visualization skills in landscape architecture.

Section 1: Landscape Architecture and Sea Level Rise

1. Sea Level Rise as a Design and Planning Issue

2. Global Strategies for Flood and Sea Level Rise Mitigation

Section 2: Global Design for Sea Level Rise

Structural Heavy Design

3. Jefferson Parish, New Orleans Region, Louisiana

4. Tampa, Florida

Non-structural Heavy Design

5. Busan, Korea

6. Moakley Park, Boston, Massachusetts.

7. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

8. Fisherman's Bend, Victoria, Australia

9. Island Bay, Greater Wellington Region of Aotearoa-New Zealand

10. Wilmington, Delaware

Hybrid Heavy Design

11. Franks Tract Futures, Sacramento: San Joaquin Delta, California

12. Samut Sakhon, Bangkok Metropolitan Region, Thailand

13. Port Saint Joe, Florida

14. Miyagi Prefecture, Sendai, Japan

Balanced Design

15. Fleming Park, Baltimore, MD

16. Sanya Dong'an Wetland Park, Hainan, China

17. Houston-Galveston Metropolitan Statistical Area, League City, TX

Scenario-based Design

18. Amsterdam and Western Scheldt Regions, the Netherlands

19. Miami, Florida

20. Christchurch, Canterbury Region, Aotearoa New Zealand

Section 3: Innovative Solutions for Sea Level Rise

21. Structural Mechanisms

22. Non-structural Mechanisms

23. Hybrid Mechanisms

24. The Urban Periculum: A Landscape at Risk from Sea Level Rise