From water sensitive to floodable: defining adaptive urban design for water resilient cities

Abstract

In growing urban areas, populations are increasingly exposed to the effects of climate change. Rainwater has been identified as a primary risk, although it is also an opportunity to pursue resilient and equitable cities while regenerating the urban ecosystem. Both urban design and landscape ecology have attempted to define effective responses to urban flooding and their synergy supports novel transdisciplinary approaches. The translation of adaptive management theories to the design process suggests working with rainwater rather than defending against it, combining science and practice. This paper retraces the evolution of design for flooding approaches and outlines the basis of an adaptive urban design for rainwater management.

Evaluating the Thermal Performance of Wet Swales Housing Ground Source Heat Pump Elements through Laboratory Modelling

“…Rapid urbanization is at the core of the problem with its subsequent land-use change and being described as one of the most influential factors affecting flooding problems in urban environments [2]. In addition, Palazzo et al [3] put a spotlight on stormwater management when referring to rainwater as a primary risk to urban resilience. Furthermore, Cai et al [4] identified thermal changes in cities produced by urbanization processes.…”

Urban stormwater management for sustainable and resilient measures and practices: a review

“…Although there are various reviews on the subject (Belinda et al 2006;Chouli 2006;Dietz 2007;Roy et al 2008;Gabe et al 2009;Fletcher et al 2013;Hamel et al 2013;Zhou 2014;Ellis & Lundy 2016;Sörensen et al 2016;Ahammed 2017;Palazzo 2018;Mishra et al 2020), the present review is novel in considering various aspects for urban stormwater management to value-add prevailing measures and practices to have more sustainable and resilient. The aspects related to urban stormwater management such as Low Impact Development (LID), Best Management Practices (BMP), Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS/SuDS) and Sponge City Programme (SCP) are reviewed with regard to knowledge gaps and future research needs which brings novelty to the present review in covering all the existing measures and practices of urban stormwater management and further proposing the application of real time governance and reuse options enhances the present review to the next level in the review of the urban stormwater management.…”

Urban megaprojects and water justice in Southeast Asia: Between global economies and community transitions

“…A range of approaches such as sponge cities, watersensitive cities and low-impact development hold promise for the planning and design of 632 semi-aquatic and floodable environments. Within Asia planning concepts such as "Sponge Cities" integrate the natural water cycle into urban developments through constructed ecologies, green infrastructure and porous development materials and elements (Jiang, Zevenbergen, & Ma, 2018;Palazzo, 2019;Radhakrishnan, Pathirana, Ashley, Gersonius, & Zevenbergen, 2018). This primarily decentralised engineering approaches needs to be better integrated with social concerns and could be expanded in scope and ambition so that they are able to better deliver at the scale of megaprojects.…”