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Conway Urban Watershed Framework Plan (Paperback)
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Conway Urban Watershed Framework Plan (Paperback)
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More than half of America's waterbodies are unsafe for swimming,
fishing, and as sources of drinking. Why? Because of unsustainable
city building and poor farming practice. Beyond water quality
problems, dysfunctional streams cause flooding and erosion of
property, leading to neighbourhood blights. Not only can this be
reversed, but repair of degraded urban streams can be a powerful
agent for reinventing the physical environments of post-industrial
cities. This requires trans-disciplinary collaboration between the
fields of ecological engineering and urban design. The American
city was uniquely premised on fusions of landscape and urbanism: a
tradition with plenty of room for innovation. However, watershed
plans remain data-and-policy-driven documents with a singular
interest in repairing waterbodies. They have little to say about
the city and urban design. Conversely, urban planning has not
codified the value of healthy ecosystems within which cities are
built. In this age of the Anthropocene, when most ecosystems are
human-dominated, resilient urban design must account for biological
processes. This book introduces watershed management into urban
design with one simple demand: that every new development
contribute to watershed stewardship, where infrastructure and
building deliver ecological services in addition to urban services.
The Conway Urban Watershed Framework Plan formulates a planning
vocabulary for use among professionals and decision-makers to
engage this new design market.
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