Screen LibraryConway urban watershed framework plan : a reconciliation landscape for Little Creek-Palarm Creek sub-watershed /
More than half of America's waterbodies are unsafe for swimming, fishing, and as sources of drinking water due to anthropogenic activity. Considering that city and watershed are often conflicting systems of flow, generating their own shape and structure across the landscape: how can city form f...
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| Publisher Address: | [Novato, California] : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
More than half of America's waterbodies are unsafe for swimming, fishing, and as sources of drinking water due to anthropogenic activity. Considering that city and watershed are often conflicting systems of flow, generating their own shape and structure across the landscape: how can city form fix the watershed and what does an urban watershed plan look like? The Conway Urban Watershed Framework Plan introduces watershed management concepts into urban design for a city with severe water management problems. More a rihizomatic plan than a master plan, soft infrastructural retrofits include green sheets, water treatment art parks, urban eco-farms, conservation neighborhoods, parking gardens, lake aerators, vegetative harvesters, floating biomats, and a city greenway to improve riparian corridors. This transferable resilience planning vocabulary aligns the metabolism of the city with that of the watershed. Solutions are benchmarked to the 17 ecological services provided by healthy ecosystems, improving the ability of communities to remedy stressors that adversely affect the resilience of urban systems. The plan shows that repair of degraded urban streams can be a powerful agent for reinventing the physical environments and ecological performance in post-industrial cities. |
| Carrier Form: | 177 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, plans ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781939621818 193962181X |
| Index Number: | HT167 |
| CLC: | TU984.712 |
| Call Number: | TU984.712/C767 |
| Contents: | Introducing watersheds, cities, and farms as energy systems / Stephen Luoni -- Urban eco-hydrology: designing resilience for human systems / Marty D. Matlock -- Executive summary -- Context characterization -- Problemscape ; Urban watershed framework plan -- Lake restoration -- Green streets and parks -- Parking garden -- Urban eco-farm -- Conservation development -- City greenway -- Ecological design principles -- Glossary. |