Artful Rainwater Design: Creative Ways to Manage Stormwater

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		Artful Rainwater Design: Creative Ways to Manage Stormwater
		Artful Rainwater Design: Creative Ways to Manage Stormwater

This is the go-to resource for designers creating new stormwater systems that are exciting, creative, and fun. Stormwater management as art? Absolutely. Rain is a resource that should be valued and celebrated, not merely treated as an urban design problem, and yet, traditional stormwater treatment methods often range from ugly to forgettable. Artful Rainwater Design shows that it's possible to effectively manage runoff while also creating inviting, attractive landscapes. This beautifully illustrated, comprehensive guide explains how to design creative, yet practical, landscapes that treat onsite stormwater management as an opportunity to enhance site design. Artful Rainwater Design is a must-have resource for landscape architects, urban designers, civil engineers, and architects looking to create landscapes that celebrate rain for the life-giving resource it is-and contribute to more sustainable, healthy, and even fun, built environments.

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"Building on a decade of research, travel, and development, Echols and Pennypacker explain the design of every stage of rainwater's path through crowded cities. Their Artful Design paradigm restores the urban water environment, and articulates the places where people live, making them active parts of their lives."--Bruce K. Ferguson "Creator of Ferguson's Portal, former Director of the School of Environmental Design, U. of Georgia "

作者简介

Dr. Stuart Echols is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Pennsylvania State University where he teaches courses in stormwater management, urban design, land development, environmental site construction methods, design research methods, land-use assessment, and design implementation. He is a registered landscape architect and has practiced in Texas, Florida, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Eliza Pennypacker has been a faculty member in Pennsylvania State University's Department of Landscape Architecture since 1982. She has taught a wide range of courses, including the History of Landscape Architecture, First-Year Seminar, and all levels of design studio. Professor Pennypacker's creative work has also included the winning entry to the national design competition for a Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and design and curation of an award-winning, travelling interpretive exhibition and exhibition catalogue titled Abstracting the Landscape: the Artistry of Landscape Architect A. E. Bye.

网友对Artful Rainwater Design: Creative Ways to Manage Stormwater的评论

I picked up this book thinking it would be all about landscaping around the house in relationship to rain water. It is anything but that. This book is actually a collection of serious essays about rain water management in urban settings, from an urban planning perspective. Most of the chapters swirl around the epicenter of municipalities in the Pacific Northwest -- Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, etc. -- and each chapter presents some different but overlapping perspectives on moving rain water productively out of the way of urban demands for such things as parking lots, sidewalks, and buildings.

As you can see in my images, many of the chapters focus on creating landscaped, vegetation depressions and/or swales, always with a buried and hidden architecture of rock and drainage pipe.

So from this last description you can see that residential readers who want to work on the areas around their houses can actually learn and extrapolate a lot from this book. While most of us don't need to add large parking lots to our houses, we do need to enact (on smaller scales) much of what is described in this book. So even if you're "just" a homeowner, I think you can pull some interesting ideas from this book.

Note that at least one chapter deals with a more arid area (Arizona), so it's not only geared toward designing for high-rainfall areas. But the Pacific Northwest is certainly the main concern of this book.

This is a book for communities and businesses who are willing to think outside the box. What can you do to ease drought and help flooding? What can you provide as a first flush to help filter road and other contamination from water...and not follow the make it go away crowd?

This is a useful tool in business and urban design. It is likely above the capacity of homeowners but an excellent manual to find workable solutions to water issues that affect us all.

Artful Rainwater Design is beautifully illustrated yet extremely informative and well presented. It lives up to the title, thoughtfully educating on the various ways that rainwater is collected, showcased, stored, and disseminated. From watersheds to storm drainage, nature preserves to art pieces. There's something for everyone here: landscapers, scientists, policymakers, environmental advocates, urban planners, and even home gardeners looking for inspiration.

The book breaks down as follows:

Part 1: The history of storm water management and background for artful rainwater design.

Part 2: Achieving amenity with artful rainwater design (education, recreation, safety, public relations, and aesthetic richness in artful rainwater design).

Part 3: Achieving utility with artful rainwater design (gray and green infrastructure techniques for sustainable storm water management; the ARD utility axioms)

Part 4: Case studies of artful rainwater design. Included: Educational applications, recreational applications, safety applications, public relations designs, and aesthetic richness examples.

Although highly technical, the case studies are definitely the highlight of the book. Needs and design are merged at places such as The Dell at the University of Virginia, Rain Garden at the Oregon Convention Center, Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, and the Queens Botanical Garden. Examples of great rainwater designs cross the US - from Arizona's deserts to rainforest Portland.

Though mostly of an industrial nature, I learned quite a bit and, even more, greatly inspired. This isn't a book full of pretty pictures; great pains were taken to thoroughly discuss the subjects presented. As well, inner City to nature locations give testimony to the scope of the book.

In all, a fascinating book that is well researched, nicely photographed, and useful for both education and inspirational purposes. Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher.

The subject material is well researched and the case examples are on point. Excellent reference for today's storm water management professional.

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