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The Art of Sustainable Stormwater: Towards Blue-Green Cities

Autor Nancy Rottle
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 ian 2025
Rapid urbanization and climate change are causing stormwater runoff to present increasingly severe problems in cities and metropolitan regions, including flooding, aquatic degradation and water shortages. Yet, stormwater can become an amenity when designers artfully capture, detain, treat and re-use stormwater, using it to generate more livable, delightful, and environmentally sustainable cities. The Art of Stormwater helps students and practitioners of landscape architecture and related environmental design fields understand the needs and possibilities for transforming stormwater into multi-functional urban amenities. Providing essential background concepts, useful planning and design principles and approaches and instructional illustrated case studies demonstrating how stormwater impacts on natural systems, urban infrastructure, neighborhoods, parks, plazas, streets, buildings and public art. Guest practitioners contribute brief perspectives on their successful projects, cultivating awareness of contemporary leaders in the field and bringing to life the profession and practice of landscape architecture as it relates to stormwater management planning and design.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474246231
ISBN-10: 1474246230
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 200 color illus
Dimensiuni: 210 x 270 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Inspires and informs with case studies that are organized by urban built environment typologies, thereby serving as a resource to design students and professionals as they work on specific project types

Notă biografică

Nancy Rottle, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture, University of Washington, USA. She has over two decades of landscape architecture professional experience and has been teaching since 2001. Her recent scholarship, including the co-authored book Ecological Design, has focused on the application of theory and new practices to regenerate the health of urban and urbanizing environments.

Cuprins

Introduction 1. Stormwater Function BasicsThe Urbanized Hydrologic Cycle Stormwater Runoff Impacts: Quantity and Quality Employing and Mimicking Natural Processes Role of Landscape Features in Detaining and Filtering Stormwater Response to Urbanization and Climate ChangeWater as a Resource, Habitat, and MeaningAchieving Multiple FunctionsFactors, Approaches and Tools for Predicting Water Quantity on a Site2. Designing for Natural SystemsThe Urbanized Hydrologic CycleStormwater Runoff and Impervious SurfacesEmploying and Mimicking Natural Processes in Detaining and Filtering Role of Landscape Features in Detaining and Filtering Response to Urbanization and Climate ChangeAchieving Multiple FunctionsSummaryExercise and Discussion Questions3. Cities and Neighborhoods Planning and Designing Urban Hydrological Green InfrastructureInfrastructural OpportunitiesWater as StructureVisible vs. InvisibleUrban ChallengesUrban Mandates Case StudySummary Exercise and Discussion Questions4. Parks Multi-functional, artful, in public view, flexibleVarying ScalesLegibility, Safety, Recreation, Exploration, EducationThe Evolving Urban ParkCase StudySummary Exercise and Discussion Questions5. Plazas and Public Spaces The Urban Expression of StormwaterIdentity, Iconic and Multi-functional Case StudySummary Exercise and Discussion Questions6. Streets and ParkingComplete StreetsMobility and Community FunctionsPaved Surfaces as ReservoirsStreets as ConnectorsSupporting the Urban CanopyCase StudySummary Exercise and Discussion Questions7. Housing, Courtyards, Gardens and PlayEveryday Living with WaterWater as a ResourceGardens and ArtInteracting with WainSustainable LifewaysWater PlayCase StudySummary Exercise and Discussion Questions8. Roofs and Walls Green and Blue Roofs Green Roof Stormwater Performance Green Walls Green Factor Programs Roofs and Walls as TableauxCase StudySummary Exercise and Discussion Questions9. Closed Loop Systems: Integrated Buildings and LandscapesWater Harvest and Re-useWaste Becomes Food Cyclical Flows Rather than Linear FlowsDetention in WinterWater Supply in Summer Making Water Collection VisibleCase StudySummary Exercise and Discussion Questions10. Site-specific Stormwater Art Art as Carrier of Message, Meaning, Provocation, Reframing and DelightCase StudySummary Exercise and Discussion Questions11. Putting it togetherSpecific to Place and ContextRetain, Infiltrate and CollectIntegrate with Other SystemsAesthetic, Experiential and Emotionally CompellingEngagingStructuralIntegrate Messaging into the Design ConceptResource and Ecological Regeneration Work with Dynamic NatureSimple, Elegant and BeneficialFurther ResourcesWeb LinksFurther ReadingOrganizations