Water centric sustainable communities planning, retrofitting, and building the next urban environment

• Main Authors: Novotny, Vladimir, Ahern, Jack, Brown, Paul
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, N.J Wiley 2010; John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated; Wiley-Blackwell
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Subjects: Management; Municipal water supply; Sustainable development; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Water Supply; Urban runoff; Urban runoff > Management; Water resources development; Watershed management
• ISBN: 0470476087; 9780470476086; 9780470642825; 0470642823; 0470949961; 9780470949962
• DOI: 10.1002/9780470949962

The current literature compartmentalizes the complex issue of water and wastewater into its discrete components; technology, planning, policy, construction, economics, etc. Considered from the perspective of sustainability, however, water in the urban environment must be approached as a single resource that can be continuously reused and recycled. This book will be the first to capture all of the current work on this idea in a single, integrated, plan for designing the water-centric cities of the future. From new construction to the retrofitting of existing systems, this book presents the case for a new urban relationship to water, one with a more sustainableconnection tothe environment and the hydrological cycle. Through case studies of successfully planned and built systems around the world, the book will educate the reader about the need for a new approach to urban water management, and make the case that these changes are not only possible but imperative.