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Book SynopsisChapter 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.
