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.
Introduction
1. Stormwater Function Basics
The 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 Change
Water as a Resource, Habitat, and Meaning
Achieving Multiple Functions
Factors, Approaches and Tools for Predicting Water Quantity on a Site
2. Designing for Natural Systems
The Urbanized Hydrologic Cycle
Stormwater Runoff and Impervious Surfaces
Employing and Mimicking Natural Processes in Detaining and Filtering
Role of Landscape Features in Detaining and Filtering
Response to Urbanization and Climate Change
Achieving Multiple Functions
Summary
Exercise and Discussion Questions
3. Cities and Neighborhoods
Planning and Designing Urban Hydrological Green Infrastructure
Infrastructural Opportunities
Water as Structure
Visible vs. Invisible
Urban Challenges
Urban Mandates
Case Study
Summary
Exercise and Discussion Questions
4. Parks
Multi-functional, artful, in public view, flexible
Varying Scales
Legibility, Safety, Recreation, Exploration, Education
The Evolving Urban Park
Case Study
Summary
Exercise and Discussion Questions
5. Plazas and Public Spaces
The Urban Expression of Stormwater
Identity, Iconic and Multi-functional
Case Study
Summary
Exercise and Discussion Questions
6. Streets and Parking
Complete Streets
Mobility and Community Functions
Paved Surfaces as Reservoirs
Streets as Connectors
Supporting the Urban Canopy
Case Study
Summary
Exercise and Discussion Questions
7. Housing, Courtyards, Gardens and Play
Everyday Living with Water
Water as a Resource
Gardens and Art
Interacting with Wain
Sustainable Lifeways
Water Play
Case Study
Summary
Exercise and Discussion Questions
8. Roofs and Walls
Green and Blue Roofs
Green Roof Stormwater Performance
Green Walls
Green Factor Programs
Roofs and Walls as Tableaux
Case Study
Summary
Exercise and Discussion Questions
9. Closed Loop Systems: Integrated Buildings and Landscapes
Water Harvest and Re-use
Waste Becomes Food
Cyclical Flows Rather than Linear Flows
Detention in Winter
Water Supply in Summer
Making Water Collection Visible
Case Study
Summary
Exercise and Discussion Questions
10. Site-specific Stormwater Art
Art as Carrier of Message, Meaning, Provocation, Reframing and Delight
Case Study
Summary
Exercise and Discussion Questions
11. Putting it together
Specific to Place and Context
Retain, Infiltrate and Collect
Integrate with Other Systems
Aesthetic, Experiential and Emotionally Compelling
Engaging
Structural
Integrate Messaging into the Design Concept
Resource and Ecological Regeneration
Work with Dynamic Nature
Simple, Elegant and Beneficial
Further Resources
Web Links
Further Reading
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