Chapter 1. Designing arid cities: cope, embrace, reverse -- Chapter 2. A regional planning response to water scarce cities: the case of Monterrey, Mexico -- Chapter 3. Importing the Desert into the Urban: Architectural Narratives from the Middle East -- Chapter 4. Fragments and loading docks: Examining the relationship between urban climate change policy and design tools in a hotter, dryer climate of Melbourne, Australia -- Chapter 5. Maguey landscape: regeneration of the desert -- Chapter 6. Dry Urbanism Solutions for arid environments -- Chapter 7. Urban arid green: A nature-based solutions proposal for Ecocity development in arid regions. Case study Tamansourt, Morocco -- Chapter 8. Transforming Cities: The Impact of Small-Scale Green Interventions -- Chapter 9. Integrating Dry Urbanism in Qatar's Urban Development: A Model for Sustainable Growth in Arid Regions -- Chapter 10. Projects for the future city: a design framework for climate justice -- Chapter 11. From Oasis to Paradise: An Introduction to the Multiscale and Multifaceted Adaptation Aspects of Iranian Architecture and Urbanism in Dry Cities -- Chapter 12. Evapotranspiration impacts on summer surface urban heat island distributions and trends in Santa Clara, California: moderating effects of the human environment -- Chapter 13. Towards drought-sensitive cities.

The ambition of the book is to give a contemporary insight in the state of the art when it comes to designing our cities and landscapes for dry conditions. Water, or the absence thereof, is an important issue to consider. Many cities around the world are increasingly suffering heat, droughts and occasional severe flooding and rainfall. This asks for new approaches, and methodologies to (re)design the urban and rural condition to stay livable. This book aims to connect theories (the methodologies and approaches) with practice (concrete examples and projects).