The report, entitled "Waters at the Edge: Forms and Conflicts of Water Urbanism in Albenga" examines the severe disconnect between historical urban forms and hydrological systems within the Mediterranean context. Given the global climate emergency particularly the polarization of the hydrological cycle with prolonged droughts interspersed with high-intensity flash floods the study highlights the obsolescence of traditional hard engineering solutions. In Albenga, the historical symbiotic relationship with the Centa River has been disrupted by 20th-century "defensive" planning thinking, transforming the river into a "hydraulic burden" isolated from the heritage core of the "City of Towers" by concrete dikes and intensive greenhouse farming.