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The Water Environment of Cities (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
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The Water Environment of Cities (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
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The concept for the Water Environment of Cities arose from a
workshop "Green 1 Cities, Blue Waters" workshop held in 2006. The
workshop assembled experts from engineering, planning, economics,
law, hydrology, aquatic ecology, geom- phology, and other
disciplines to present research ?ndings and identify key new ideas
on the urban water environment. At a lunch discussion near the end
of the workshop, several of us came to the recognition that despite
having considerable expertise in a narrow discipline, none of us
had a vision of the "urban water en- ronment" as a whole. We were,
as in the parable, blind men at opposite ends of the elephant,
knowinga great deal about the parts, but notunderstandingthe whole.
We quickly recognized the need to develop a book that would
integrate this knowledge to create this vision. The goal was to
develop a book that could be used to teach a complete,
multidisciplinary course, "The Urban Water Environment," but could
also be used as a supplemental text for courses on urban
ecosystems, urban design, landscapearchitecture, water policy,
waterqualitymanagement andwatershed m- agement. The book is also
valuable as a reference source for water professionals stepping
outside their arena of disciplinary expertise. The Water
Environment of Cities is the ?rst book to use a holistic, interdis-
plinary approach to examine the urban water environment. We have
attempted to portrayaholisticvisionbuiltaround theconcept of water
as a coreelement ofcities. Water has multipleroles:
municipalwatersupply, aquatichabitat, landscapeaesth- ics, and
recreation. Increasingly, urban water is reused, serving multiple
purposes.
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