London's Green Spaces. Pocket Parks: The Design Challenge.marcusshields
Open space within the city of London is limited. Consequently, the existing policy framework aims to provide access to high quality open space dispersed throughout the city with important initiatives such as the Greater London Authorities 100 Pocket Parks programme. This presentation reviews the type and scale of London’s green spaces, then moves on to discuss how we can make the most of our small-scale local community green spaces, or pocket parks.
Planning for Green Spaces to make Cities Healthy JIT KUMAR GUPTA
The document discusses the importance of green spaces and open areas in urban planning. Some key points:
1) Green spaces provide significant health, environmental, and quality of life benefits to city residents by encouraging physical activity, improving mental health, reducing stress, and providing habitats for wildlife.
2) The Paris Climate Agreement mandates increasing urban green cover to create larger carbon sinks and reduce emissions.
3) Open spaces in cities include parks, recreational areas, and natural landscapes that are publicly accessible and do not include rural countryside.
4) Benefits of urban green spaces include recreation, promoting ecological awareness, increasing biodiversity, and providing aesthetic value.
Sustainable Urban Open Green Spaces Opportunities and ChallengesMehdi Rakhshandehroo
Shortage of open green spaces has become a common concern in today’s compact cities. Based on the literature review, urban open green spaces provide different dimensions of sustainability because of opportunities for social, environmental, and economic benefits which contribute to quality of life in cities. Urban development and renewal should be accompanied with a greening vision, to insert more plantable spaces into the urban fabric. Therefore sustainable urban planning, design and management are needed to improve urban greening strategy.
In order to enhance urban greenery, innovative and creative ideas should be applied in urban management, for instance informal open green spaces (e.g. brownfields, vacant lots, streets and railways) potentially are part of urban nature or a setback along roadsides could create a planting strip and improve the urban landscape. The opportunities which are laid in the sustainable development can improve environmental quality and consequently the quality of life.
The document is a term paper that explores the relationship between urban green spaces and sustainable architecture. It begins with an introduction discussing the importance of green spaces in urban areas and their role in sustainable design. It then provides a brief historical overview of urban green space uses. The paper presents two case studies that illustrate how green spaces were incorporated into projects to address sustainability. Finally, it examines how urban green spaces can specifically promote economic, environmental, and human sustainability when integrated into architectural design.
This document is a portfolio for Chenhao Wang's graduate period in landscape architecture at Ball State University. It includes his education background from Beijing Forestry University and Ball State University, work experiences as a class representative and intern, skills in design software and hand drawing, interests in cycling and traveling, and samples of projects including an environmental education center, art-wrapped substation and community space, vacant lot reuse focusing on at-risk youth, and additional works.
Planning for Open Spaces to make cities HealthyJIT KUMAR GUPTA
The presentation is an attempt to showcase the role and importance of open spaces in the context of human settlements and to improve quality of air and life in built environment, communities and cities
Port Dickson Site Inventory & Analysis Booklet chiwunloi
The document presents an analysis of the natural physical features of a site in Pantai Saujana, Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan including its soil conditions, water features, slope and drainage patterns, groundcovers, and vegetation. Details on the site's climate, sunlight, wind, and shadow patterns are also provided. The analysis examines these characteristics at both the macro and micro site scale and identifies strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
Ulla Schuch gave a presentation on the benefits of urban open space. She discussed 12 key benefits, including producing oxygen, reducing noise and dust, providing shade and food. She used Frankfurt, Germany as an example city that has implemented a successful "GreenBelt" of urban open spaces encircling the city. The GreenBelt includes forests, rivers, parks and other landscapes. She outlined Frankfurt's history with urban open spaces and investments in the GreenBelt. Schuch concluded by proposing international collaboration on projects to increase urban open spaces in Cali, Colombia, highlighting the city's natural advantages.
London's Green Spaces. Pocket Parks: The Design Challenge.marcusshields
Open space within the city of London is limited. Consequently, the existing policy framework aims to provide access to high quality open space dispersed throughout the city with important initiatives such as the Greater London Authorities 100 Pocket Parks programme. This presentation reviews the type and scale of London’s green spaces, then moves on to discuss how we can make the most of our small-scale local community green spaces, or pocket parks.
Planning for Green Spaces to make Cities Healthy JIT KUMAR GUPTA
The document discusses the importance of green spaces and open areas in urban planning. Some key points:
1) Green spaces provide significant health, environmental, and quality of life benefits to city residents by encouraging physical activity, improving mental health, reducing stress, and providing habitats for wildlife.
2) The Paris Climate Agreement mandates increasing urban green cover to create larger carbon sinks and reduce emissions.
3) Open spaces in cities include parks, recreational areas, and natural landscapes that are publicly accessible and do not include rural countryside.
4) Benefits of urban green spaces include recreation, promoting ecological awareness, increasing biodiversity, and providing aesthetic value.
Sustainable Urban Open Green Spaces Opportunities and ChallengesMehdi Rakhshandehroo
Shortage of open green spaces has become a common concern in today’s compact cities. Based on the literature review, urban open green spaces provide different dimensions of sustainability because of opportunities for social, environmental, and economic benefits which contribute to quality of life in cities. Urban development and renewal should be accompanied with a greening vision, to insert more plantable spaces into the urban fabric. Therefore sustainable urban planning, design and management are needed to improve urban greening strategy.
In order to enhance urban greenery, innovative and creative ideas should be applied in urban management, for instance informal open green spaces (e.g. brownfields, vacant lots, streets and railways) potentially are part of urban nature or a setback along roadsides could create a planting strip and improve the urban landscape. The opportunities which are laid in the sustainable development can improve environmental quality and consequently the quality of life.
The document is a term paper that explores the relationship between urban green spaces and sustainable architecture. It begins with an introduction discussing the importance of green spaces in urban areas and their role in sustainable design. It then provides a brief historical overview of urban green space uses. The paper presents two case studies that illustrate how green spaces were incorporated into projects to address sustainability. Finally, it examines how urban green spaces can specifically promote economic, environmental, and human sustainability when integrated into architectural design.
This document is a portfolio for Chenhao Wang's graduate period in landscape architecture at Ball State University. It includes his education background from Beijing Forestry University and Ball State University, work experiences as a class representative and intern, skills in design software and hand drawing, interests in cycling and traveling, and samples of projects including an environmental education center, art-wrapped substation and community space, vacant lot reuse focusing on at-risk youth, and additional works.
Planning for Open Spaces to make cities HealthyJIT KUMAR GUPTA
The presentation is an attempt to showcase the role and importance of open spaces in the context of human settlements and to improve quality of air and life in built environment, communities and cities
Port Dickson Site Inventory & Analysis Booklet chiwunloi
The document presents an analysis of the natural physical features of a site in Pantai Saujana, Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan including its soil conditions, water features, slope and drainage patterns, groundcovers, and vegetation. Details on the site's climate, sunlight, wind, and shadow patterns are also provided. The analysis examines these characteristics at both the macro and micro site scale and identifies strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
Ulla Schuch gave a presentation on the benefits of urban open space. She discussed 12 key benefits, including producing oxygen, reducing noise and dust, providing shade and food. She used Frankfurt, Germany as an example city that has implemented a successful "GreenBelt" of urban open spaces encircling the city. The GreenBelt includes forests, rivers, parks and other landscapes. She outlined Frankfurt's history with urban open spaces and investments in the GreenBelt. Schuch concluded by proposing international collaboration on projects to increase urban open spaces in Cali, Colombia, highlighting the city's natural advantages.
Over the past ten years, I’ve worn many hats: environmental educator, community organizer, landscape designer, park gardner and steward. Through different roles, I’ve worked towards a singular goal; to design public places that matter to people, and create experiences these spaces that foster stewardship for the environment.
This document summarizes an environmental impact assessment seminar presentation on the Sardar Sarovar Dam project in India. It discusses what an EIA is, types of projects that require EIAs like thermal power plants, mining, and river valley projects. It then focuses on the Sardar Sarovar Dam project as a case study, outlining its projected benefits, environmental impacts, protests against the project, and current status along with environmental safeguard measures taken.
Planning for Open Spaces to Make Cities HealthyJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Presentation is an attempt to aggregate various approaches to planning, designing and developing the open spaces and their context in the urban areas/ urban neighborhoods / urban communities/urban residents to make them happy, healthy, productive and sustainable
This document discusses parks and open spaces. It describes the history and importance of parks for public recreation. There are different types of parks, including neighborhood parks ranging from 1 to 15 acres, community parks from 16 to 99 acres, and special use parks for a single purpose like zoos. The document outlines standards for park acreage per population according to the NRPA. Parks provide benefits such as aesthetic value, substitution for other land uses, and boosting local economies through tourism. Issues discussed include lack of parks in low-income areas and crime in isolated parks. Solutions involve increasing activities and access points. The document calls for more funding for urban green spaces.
This document discusses sustainable architecture and greening neighborhoods through urban planning. It addresses how unchecked suburban development has led to the loss of green spaces. An existing sprawl can be made more sustainable by increasing density and integrating green areas, good transit, and appropriately planned spaces. The document outlines different types of urban green spaces like parks, playgrounds, and linear parks. It also discusses the environmental, social, and economic benefits of urban green spaces, such as reducing conflict, providing recreation, and supporting tourism. Proper planning and allocation of green spaces is important for neighborhood sustainability.
This document discusses open spaces, including what they are, different types, their functions and benefits. It provides examples of open space planning in the Philippines. Open spaces are lands that are not intensively developed and can include parks, forests, farms, and other undeveloped lands. They provide important social, environmental and economic benefits like recreation, wildlife habitat, improved air and water quality. The Philippines emphasizes conserving open spaces through laws and land use planning that designate various protected area types at national and local levels.
The document provides guidelines for planning a town according to Local Agenda 21 principles. These include fully involving the community, assessing the town's current environmental, economic and social conditions, setting goals to improve sustainability, monitoring progress, and reporting results. Key aspects to focus on are efficient resource use, pollution reduction, protecting nature, meeting local needs locally, access to basic services, community participation in decision-making, and promoting culture and recreation. Specific sustainable practices recommended for the town plan are increasing energy and water efficiency in buildings, using sustainable building materials, promoting sustainable transportation like public transit, cycling and walking, implementing sustainable drainage systems, permeable parking areas, and waste reduction through recycling and reuse programs.
3.THE BENEFITS AND Urban open spaces provide significant social, health, and environmental benefits. They offer opportunities for
OPPORTUNITIES OF recreation, education, community development, and improving mental and physical well-being. Open spaces also play an
OPEN SPACES important role in urban ecology by reducing stress and providing contact with nature.
a. Social
b. Health
c. Environmental
d. Economic
4. URBAN OPEN SPACES-
SPACES FOR ALL
a. Domestic
b. Neighborhood
c. Civic
5.URBAN OPEN SPACES-
CASE STUDIES
Site C is located at the DBKL parking lot, just beside the Gombak River where the ROL project is currently taken place. The site analysis is done by us, a group of semester 6 architecture students from Taylor's University Lakeside Campus.
This document provides an analysis of open space in the Blossom Park precinct of the City of Whittlesea. It finds there is excellent provision of open space, totaling 159.66 hectares or 43% of the precinct area. The available open space per person is 255 square meters. While overall provision is adequate, some gaps in accessibility were identified and the document recommends minor upgrades to several parks to improve paths, facilities, and landscaping. It also recommends a major upgrade of Kellynack Recreation Reserve to include more unstructured recreation areas and informal facilities.
The document discusses low impact development (LID) techniques that aim to minimize impacts of land development on water systems and replicate natural hydrologic functions. It describes LID as a hydrology-based approach that reflects ecosystem functions through decentralized stormwater management practices. It provides examples of LID techniques like conservation plans, minimizing impervious surfaces, maintaining natural flow paths, and using integrated practices like bioretention and permeable surfaces.
This document summarizes a presentation given by Yusuf Arsiwala of RootBridge C O L L A B on restoring water-related eco-systems in Delhi. It discusses issues with Delhi's existing water bodies like pollution, waste disposal, and sediment buildup. It then presents a model for restoring Rajokari Lake in the village of Rajokari by cleaning the water, removing sludge, restoring the catchment area, and creating ecologically designed landscapes. The proposal includes using SWAB technology for wastewater treatment, natural bio-swales and rain gardens for landscaping, and standardizing restoration processes. The restoration of Rajokari Lake improved the local ecology and groundwater, created a community space
Environmental Impact Assessment on Dams Sodiq Rasaq
The document discusses the environmental impacts of dams. It outlines both positive impacts, such as flood control and electricity generation, and negative impacts. Key negative impacts include the loss of archaeological and historic sites flooded by reservoirs, changes to water-soil-nutrient relations, increases in waterborne illnesses, effects on local communities like forced migration, and impacts to aquatic ecosystems like changes to river flow and fish populations. The document also examines effects on climate, terrestrial ecosystems, and downstream areas. It emphasizes the need to consider both benefits and impacts of dams for sustainable development and conduct environmental impact assessments.
Jersey Water Works Green Infrastructure Training at NJ Society of Municipal E...New Jersey Future
The Green Infrastructure Committee of Jersey Water Works presented to the New Jersey Society of Municipal Engineers about green infrastructure on September 14, 2016.
Creating a green zone in boston 9 8-20 (20)EdGaskin1
The document proposes creating a Green Zone in the Grove Hall neighborhood of Boston to address environmental justice issues and pilot green innovations. It summarizes that Grove Hall currently has little tree coverage, many impervious surfaces, and suffers from heat island effects, poor air quality, and related health issues like obesity and asthma. A Green Zone could help improve conditions through green businesses and infrastructure, making the area more sustainable and resilient to climate impacts like sea level rise.
Planning for Open Spaces to Make Cities Healthy(Revised)JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Presentation tries to highlight the role and importance of open spaces in the context of human habitats, advantages it offers in making cities sustainable,livable, healthy and social. In addition presentation tries to define the policy framework for planning and designing these spaces..
Urban Water Quality Issues - Green Design & Developmentnacaa
The document discusses green design and development which aims to minimize environmental impacts through practices like reducing impervious surfaces, preserving open spaces, and using low impact development (LID) approaches to better manage stormwater runoff. It provides examples of specific LID techniques like bioretention cells, permeable pavements, vegetated swales, and green roofs that can be integrated into site planning and building design. The goals are to protect water resources by maintaining natural hydrologic functions and reducing flooding, pollution, and development costs.
The document is from Biosfera Foundation, an organization that provides environmental management solutions using bioengineering techniques. It summarizes various projects Biosfera has undertaken to restore contaminated water bodies and canals in India through integrated approaches involving plants, microbes, and solar powered technology. Examples mentioned include restoring lakes in Lucknow and Kolkata as well as canals in Kolkata and Manila.
Green Infrastructure Workshop for Design ProfessionalsNew Jersey Future
On May 26, 2016, Michele Adams of Meliora Design and Tavis Dockwiller of Viridian Landscape Studio gave a presentation on green infrastructure during a workshop put together by New Jersey Future. The workshop was held for design professionals like engineers, landscape architects, and architects who design and/or review stormwater management systems in the Highlands of New Jersey.
The document summarizes population statistics for different areas of Atlanta between 2000-2010. It finds that a southwest Atlanta tract added the most total people, a south Buckhead tract had the highest percentage with a bachelor's degree or higher, a Thomasville Heights tract had the highest percentage of children under 5 years old, a Buckhead tract had the highest percentage of people over 65 years old, a western tract saw the largest increase in children under 5, a different Buckhead tract had the most people aged 65 and over, and finally a Buckhead tract had the highest median household income at $150,631.
The document discusses a stormwater rehabilitation project in Charlotte, North Carolina called the Hill Street SDIP. It describes using XPSWMM software to model existing stormwater conditions, including validating the model with a significant past storm event, and modeling a 100-year storm. The model showed most of the existing stormwater infrastructure to be deficient. Proposed improvements included realigning and upsizing 4.1 miles of storm systems and 459 drainage structures, as well as 4000 feet of utility relocations, to reduce flooding risks.
Over the past ten years, I’ve worn many hats: environmental educator, community organizer, landscape designer, park gardner and steward. Through different roles, I’ve worked towards a singular goal; to design public places that matter to people, and create experiences these spaces that foster stewardship for the environment.
This document summarizes an environmental impact assessment seminar presentation on the Sardar Sarovar Dam project in India. It discusses what an EIA is, types of projects that require EIAs like thermal power plants, mining, and river valley projects. It then focuses on the Sardar Sarovar Dam project as a case study, outlining its projected benefits, environmental impacts, protests against the project, and current status along with environmental safeguard measures taken.
Planning for Open Spaces to Make Cities HealthyJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Presentation is an attempt to aggregate various approaches to planning, designing and developing the open spaces and their context in the urban areas/ urban neighborhoods / urban communities/urban residents to make them happy, healthy, productive and sustainable
This document discusses parks and open spaces. It describes the history and importance of parks for public recreation. There are different types of parks, including neighborhood parks ranging from 1 to 15 acres, community parks from 16 to 99 acres, and special use parks for a single purpose like zoos. The document outlines standards for park acreage per population according to the NRPA. Parks provide benefits such as aesthetic value, substitution for other land uses, and boosting local economies through tourism. Issues discussed include lack of parks in low-income areas and crime in isolated parks. Solutions involve increasing activities and access points. The document calls for more funding for urban green spaces.
This document discusses sustainable architecture and greening neighborhoods through urban planning. It addresses how unchecked suburban development has led to the loss of green spaces. An existing sprawl can be made more sustainable by increasing density and integrating green areas, good transit, and appropriately planned spaces. The document outlines different types of urban green spaces like parks, playgrounds, and linear parks. It also discusses the environmental, social, and economic benefits of urban green spaces, such as reducing conflict, providing recreation, and supporting tourism. Proper planning and allocation of green spaces is important for neighborhood sustainability.
This document discusses open spaces, including what they are, different types, their functions and benefits. It provides examples of open space planning in the Philippines. Open spaces are lands that are not intensively developed and can include parks, forests, farms, and other undeveloped lands. They provide important social, environmental and economic benefits like recreation, wildlife habitat, improved air and water quality. The Philippines emphasizes conserving open spaces through laws and land use planning that designate various protected area types at national and local levels.
The document provides guidelines for planning a town according to Local Agenda 21 principles. These include fully involving the community, assessing the town's current environmental, economic and social conditions, setting goals to improve sustainability, monitoring progress, and reporting results. Key aspects to focus on are efficient resource use, pollution reduction, protecting nature, meeting local needs locally, access to basic services, community participation in decision-making, and promoting culture and recreation. Specific sustainable practices recommended for the town plan are increasing energy and water efficiency in buildings, using sustainable building materials, promoting sustainable transportation like public transit, cycling and walking, implementing sustainable drainage systems, permeable parking areas, and waste reduction through recycling and reuse programs.
3.THE BENEFITS AND Urban open spaces provide significant social, health, and environmental benefits. They offer opportunities for
OPPORTUNITIES OF recreation, education, community development, and improving mental and physical well-being. Open spaces also play an
OPEN SPACES important role in urban ecology by reducing stress and providing contact with nature.
a. Social
b. Health
c. Environmental
d. Economic
4. URBAN OPEN SPACES-
SPACES FOR ALL
a. Domestic
b. Neighborhood
c. Civic
5.URBAN OPEN SPACES-
CASE STUDIES
Site C is located at the DBKL parking lot, just beside the Gombak River where the ROL project is currently taken place. The site analysis is done by us, a group of semester 6 architecture students from Taylor's University Lakeside Campus.
This document provides an analysis of open space in the Blossom Park precinct of the City of Whittlesea. It finds there is excellent provision of open space, totaling 159.66 hectares or 43% of the precinct area. The available open space per person is 255 square meters. While overall provision is adequate, some gaps in accessibility were identified and the document recommends minor upgrades to several parks to improve paths, facilities, and landscaping. It also recommends a major upgrade of Kellynack Recreation Reserve to include more unstructured recreation areas and informal facilities.
The document discusses low impact development (LID) techniques that aim to minimize impacts of land development on water systems and replicate natural hydrologic functions. It describes LID as a hydrology-based approach that reflects ecosystem functions through decentralized stormwater management practices. It provides examples of LID techniques like conservation plans, minimizing impervious surfaces, maintaining natural flow paths, and using integrated practices like bioretention and permeable surfaces.
This document summarizes a presentation given by Yusuf Arsiwala of RootBridge C O L L A B on restoring water-related eco-systems in Delhi. It discusses issues with Delhi's existing water bodies like pollution, waste disposal, and sediment buildup. It then presents a model for restoring Rajokari Lake in the village of Rajokari by cleaning the water, removing sludge, restoring the catchment area, and creating ecologically designed landscapes. The proposal includes using SWAB technology for wastewater treatment, natural bio-swales and rain gardens for landscaping, and standardizing restoration processes. The restoration of Rajokari Lake improved the local ecology and groundwater, created a community space
Environmental Impact Assessment on Dams Sodiq Rasaq
The document discusses the environmental impacts of dams. It outlines both positive impacts, such as flood control and electricity generation, and negative impacts. Key negative impacts include the loss of archaeological and historic sites flooded by reservoirs, changes to water-soil-nutrient relations, increases in waterborne illnesses, effects on local communities like forced migration, and impacts to aquatic ecosystems like changes to river flow and fish populations. The document also examines effects on climate, terrestrial ecosystems, and downstream areas. It emphasizes the need to consider both benefits and impacts of dams for sustainable development and conduct environmental impact assessments.
Jersey Water Works Green Infrastructure Training at NJ Society of Municipal E...New Jersey Future
The Green Infrastructure Committee of Jersey Water Works presented to the New Jersey Society of Municipal Engineers about green infrastructure on September 14, 2016.
Creating a green zone in boston 9 8-20 (20)EdGaskin1
The document proposes creating a Green Zone in the Grove Hall neighborhood of Boston to address environmental justice issues and pilot green innovations. It summarizes that Grove Hall currently has little tree coverage, many impervious surfaces, and suffers from heat island effects, poor air quality, and related health issues like obesity and asthma. A Green Zone could help improve conditions through green businesses and infrastructure, making the area more sustainable and resilient to climate impacts like sea level rise.
Planning for Open Spaces to Make Cities Healthy(Revised)JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Presentation tries to highlight the role and importance of open spaces in the context of human habitats, advantages it offers in making cities sustainable,livable, healthy and social. In addition presentation tries to define the policy framework for planning and designing these spaces..
Urban Water Quality Issues - Green Design & Developmentnacaa
The document discusses green design and development which aims to minimize environmental impacts through practices like reducing impervious surfaces, preserving open spaces, and using low impact development (LID) approaches to better manage stormwater runoff. It provides examples of specific LID techniques like bioretention cells, permeable pavements, vegetated swales, and green roofs that can be integrated into site planning and building design. The goals are to protect water resources by maintaining natural hydrologic functions and reducing flooding, pollution, and development costs.
The document is from Biosfera Foundation, an organization that provides environmental management solutions using bioengineering techniques. It summarizes various projects Biosfera has undertaken to restore contaminated water bodies and canals in India through integrated approaches involving plants, microbes, and solar powered technology. Examples mentioned include restoring lakes in Lucknow and Kolkata as well as canals in Kolkata and Manila.
Green Infrastructure Workshop for Design ProfessionalsNew Jersey Future
On May 26, 2016, Michele Adams of Meliora Design and Tavis Dockwiller of Viridian Landscape Studio gave a presentation on green infrastructure during a workshop put together by New Jersey Future. The workshop was held for design professionals like engineers, landscape architects, and architects who design and/or review stormwater management systems in the Highlands of New Jersey.
The document summarizes population statistics for different areas of Atlanta between 2000-2010. It finds that a southwest Atlanta tract added the most total people, a south Buckhead tract had the highest percentage with a bachelor's degree or higher, a Thomasville Heights tract had the highest percentage of children under 5 years old, a Buckhead tract had the highest percentage of people over 65 years old, a western tract saw the largest increase in children under 5, a different Buckhead tract had the most people aged 65 and over, and finally a Buckhead tract had the highest median household income at $150,631.
The document discusses a stormwater rehabilitation project in Charlotte, North Carolina called the Hill Street SDIP. It describes using XPSWMM software to model existing stormwater conditions, including validating the model with a significant past storm event, and modeling a 100-year storm. The model showed most of the existing stormwater infrastructure to be deficient. Proposed improvements included realigning and upsizing 4.1 miles of storm systems and 459 drainage structures, as well as 4000 feet of utility relocations, to reduce flooding risks.
Workshop on Storm Water Modeling ApproachesM. Damon Weiss
The attached presentation was prepared by Pennoni Associates and Michael Baker Corporation to the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and members of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council Green Infrastructure Network. The presentation discussed various watershed modeling techniques for regional, watershed and local projects, as well as an overview of the different tools that engineers use to create these models.
This document provides a step-by-step guide for installing and using the JM H.264/AVC video codec software. It outlines downloading the software, extracting the files, selecting the appropriate Microsoft Visual Studio solution based on the user's system, compiling the projects to generate the encoder and decoder binaries, and executing the encoder to process a video sequence. The guide also directs the user to the software manual for details on configuring encoding parameters in the configuration file.
Urban Water Quality Issues - Introduction to Urban Stormwaternacaa
This document discusses urban stormwater and best management practices. It summarizes that in urban areas, less water infiltrates into the ground and more runs off as stormwater. This stormwater can transport pollutants like nutrients, sediment and bacteria. Common stormwater best management practices discussed are wet ponds, wetlands, bio-retention areas, permeable pavements, riparian buffers, and water harvesting.
Design of a Minor Storm Water Management System Using XPSWMM for London, Onta...Rakibul Hasan,MEng,EIT
•Designed a minor system to meet City of London design guidelines for a 2 year storm by XPSWMM.
•Dealt with the layout of most economical Conduit Network for 4.6 ha of total drainage area.
This document discusses urban stormwater design in Malaysia. It provides background on past drainage practices that led to increased flooding and introduces a new Stormwater Management Manual for Malaysia (MSMA) effective in 2001. The MSMA aims to manage stormwater quantity and quality through techniques like swales, dry ponds and wetlands. It also covers estimating peak flows, including time of concentration, rainfall intensities and IDF curves. Design examples are provided for sizing drains based on development type, design storm recurrence interval and flow calculations. The document emphasizes controlling stormwater at the source to mitigate flooding issues from urbanization.
The document summarizes a case study of the SMART Tunnel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 9.7km stormwater and motorway tunnel project was a joint venture that cost RM1887 million. The tunnel diverts large volumes of flood water via holding ponds and a bypass tunnel to reduce flooding in the city center and traffic congestion. It has advanced features like automated flood gates, air quality monitoring, emergency vehicles, and operates in different modes depending on rainfall levels to control stormwater flow and manage traffic.
An Interdisciplinary team from the AIA and New England Municipal Sustainability Network worked with the community of Bath, Maine to produce a strategy for the downtown and waterfront to address sea level rise and future development
This document provides background on the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway project and summarizes a study focused on integrating sustainable stormwater management along West Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The study developed conceptual stormwater designs for West Street in phases, obtaining input from city agencies and the community. The designs aim to incorporate trees, plants and soil to provide stormwater infrastructure within the public right-of-way to reduce combined sewer overflows and regulate temperatures while creating an attractive streetscape. The full report details the study methodology, existing conditions, conceptual designs, and next steps.
This document discusses the need for a park in the North Loop neighborhood of Minneapolis. The North Loop is the fastest growing neighborhood in the city, but currently lacks park space. A park could provide economic, social, and environmental benefits. It would enhance neighborhood livability and identity. The North Loop Neighborhood Association commissioned a scoping study to explore the opportunity for a new park. The study team analyzed potential sites, concepts, costs, partners, and next steps to inform future planning efforts. The scoping study aims to determine if pursuing a North Loop park makes sense, but does not assess feasibility or costs and benefits of a specific proposal.
The document describes several projects designed and managed by DiFrank including:
1) The Croke Reservoir Urban Shoreline Project in Northglenn, CO which enhanced connectivity and provided social gathering areas around the reservoir.
2) Concept designs for gateways and streetscapes at the University of Nebraska, Kearney campus focusing on identity, pedestrian safety, and traffic flows.
3) Capital improvements and a site management plan for the 1,200-acre Boulder Reservoir Park in Boulder, CO including a new entry project, infrastructure upgrades, and management strategies.
4) The design of a high-end residential development called Luxe Lake Parcel Y3 in Chengdu, China focused on
Solids and voids an analysis of need for open spaceGeeva Chandana
This document provides a summary of a dissertation on the analysis of the need for open space. It begins with an introduction that discusses the evolution of public space from ancient times to the present. It then examines types of public space in urban, suburban, and rural contexts. The document analyzes the need for and benefits of public space, as well as people's preferences and how physical and functional attributes influence public spaces. It also includes case studies of public space in India and a planning framework for rejuvenating public space. The conclusion is that public and private space are important for any settlement and open space is important for urban areas.
Plannning Parks for Liveable Cities: Green Technology Design Practice for Tas...Rijal Saffuan
The document discusses planning a park to make cities more livable. It proposes a multi-disciplinary design for a park near Kuala Lumpur that incorporates green technology innovations. Soil, water and site analyses were conducted to inform the design which includes active areas like sports facilities and more passive areas like gardens and walking paths. The goal is for the park to serve the community while addressing climate change through sustainable features.
This slide presentation was used to present the InterTech Technology Park plan to the Louisiana American Planning Association and to the Association of University Research Parks. The plan received the "Best Plan Award" from the Louisiana APA in 2002.
The document summarizes a project to design Hunters Point South Waterfront Park and infrastructure in Queens, New York. The author served as the overall design lead, coordinating the design team and securing public approvals. The project aimed to create an innovative, sustainable waterfront park and neighborhood that could serve as a model for future city projects. It featured designs for the park, streets, and green infrastructure systems to balance new housing development while connecting residents to the waterfront.
The document provides a summary of Matthew A. Thomas's qualifications and experience as a Landscape Designer. It includes his education history with a Masters of Landscape Architecture from Arizona State University. It lists his professional experience working as a Landscape Architect in Training with LVA Urban Design Studio in Tempe, AZ from 2014 to present. It also provides a list of his skills including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, SketchUp, Revit, ArcGIS, Lumion, AutoCAD, and hand rendering. It outlines notable project experience with public memorials, mixed-use developments, and solar farm projects.
Urban Stormwater Conditions and the Multiple Benefits of Green Infrastructure...RI_FMA
This document discusses urban stormwater issues in Providence, Rhode Island and the benefits of green infrastructure solutions. Providence faces challenges from aging infrastructure, high percentages of impervious surfaces, and industrial contamination near waterways. Green infrastructure approaches like rain gardens, swales, green roofs, and depaving lots can help address stormwater while providing community benefits like recreation, health, habitat, and economic development. Providence is pursuing green infrastructure projects in parks and vacant lots to manage stormwater and provide multiple benefits. Challenges remain around long-term maintenance of green infrastructure sites and further incentivizing private property owners.
The document provides a summary of Kaniz Saima's education and professional experience in architecture and infrastructure planning. It lists her MSc degree from the University of Stuttgart and BArch from Khulna University in Bangladesh. Her professional experiences include student jobs and work as an architect in Bangladesh and Germany. It also provides summaries of several of her project works in architecture and infrastructure planning.
This portfolio document summarizes Peter Salamon's background and experience in landscape architecture and urban design. It includes 9 project summaries ranging from urban analysis projects in Savannah and New Orleans to master plans for redevelopment sites in Columbus and Dublin. The projects showcase Salamon's skills in site analysis, conceptual design, digital representation, and sustainable planning principles. Overall, the portfolio demonstrates a diverse body of work in both landscape and urban contexts.
This portfolio document summarizes Peter Salamon's background and experience in landscape architecture and urban design. It includes 9 project summaries ranging from urban analysis projects in Savannah and New Orleans to master plans for redevelopment sites in Columbus and Dublin. The projects showcase Salamon's skills in site analysis, conceptual design, digital representation, and sustainable planning principles. Overall, the portfolio demonstrates a diverse body of work and a passion for creating livable, walkable urban environments.
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1. Johanna McCrehan, Urban Designer,
Georgia Conservancy
Richard Dagenhart, RA, Associate Professor of Urban Design,
Georgia Institute of Technology
March 31, 2014
Park Pride Parks and Greenspace Conference
Urban Design
and
Stormwater
and
Urban Design
Georgia Conservancy + Georgia Tech Urban Design
Studio
2. Urban Design and Stormwater
1. Why Stormwater?
2. Understanding Stormwater Management
3. Conservancy Blueprints + Urban Design Studios
Colonial Homes, Bobby Jones Golf Course and the
Peachtree Creek Watershed
Maddox Park, Boone Boulevard and the Proctor Creek
Watershed
Pittsburgh, University Avenue and the McDaniel Creek
Watershed
Ansley Mall and the Clear Creek Greenway and
Watershed
4. Conclusions: Urban Design and Stormwater
3. STORMWATER IS AN URBAN DESIGN
PROBLEM
AND
URBAN DESIGN IS A STORMWATER
PROBLEM
4. Georgia Conservancy
GC - Blueprints for Successful
Communities
Sponsored by
The Home Depot Foundation
The Sartain Lanier Foundation, Inc.
Georgia Tech Urban Design Studio
School of Architecture, School of City and
Regional Planning
Richard Dagenhart, RA, Associate Professor
Dr. Tom Debo, PE, Professor Emeritus
5. Why Stormwater?
Research-based Blueprints for Successful
Communities
Education through partnerships
Statewide initiatives and technical
assistance
7. Understanding Stormwater
Management
Stormwater problems have been defined
as the control of peak rates of runoff
from new urban development
The engineering solution: control post-
development runoff from specific
rainfall events (5-, 10-, 100-year storms)
so they do not exceed pre-development
runoff
The design solution: construct a storm
detention basin at the development site’s
drainage outlet
8. Criticism of Stormwater Management
Practices
Evidence shows that end-of-pipe
stormwater solutions do not address
the hydrologic changes induced by
new development, nor do they
consider stormwater quality
The problem in previous approaches
was to focus on individual
development sites rather than the
processes of water flows … as they
move from the individual
development sites into the larger
ecological system of urban
waterways or into the equally
9. Low Impact Development (LID) – The New
Approach
Stormwater management focuses
on both water quantity and water
quality
Stormwater management
incorporates natural processes
with mechanical processes to
design hydrologic solutions
Attention is directed as close to
the source of stormwater as
possible, not the exit from the site
10. Stormwater and Urban Design
The LID goal is to allow urban
development to occur in most
situations, but require that the
project be designed to limit
hydrologic impacts
The LID objective is to have urban
development approximate the
hydrologic characteristics of rural
or undeveloped land
When LID is broadened beyond a
single parcel of land, the design
challenge expands from site design
11. Urban Design Studio:
Research + Design
Questions
HOW CAN URBAN DESIGN ADDRESS
STORMWATER SOLUTIONS?
HOW CAN STORMWATER ADDRESS
URBAN DESIGN SOLUTIONS?
12. Stormwater in Context
Four sites along the BeltLine,
where the BeltLine Subarea Plans
did not specifically address
stormwater issues
Pittsburgh, University Avenue and the
McDaniel Creek Watershed
Maddox Park, Boone Boulevard and the
Proctor Creek Watershed
Ansley Mall and the Clear Creek
Greenway and Watershed
Colonial Homes, Bobby Jones Golf
Course and the Peachtree Creek
Watershed
Urban Design, not engineering, is the focus
of the projects – the concern is the
relationship of stormwater solutions,
environmental quality, and the future of
public and private developments for
housing, commercial and other uses.
58. CONCLUSION 1
EVERY project –
public or private, no
matter how large or
how small, must
begin with an
understanding of its
associated drainage
basins.
For urban design –
watersheds always
come first!!!!
GEORGIA’S 52 WATERSHEDS
59. CONCLUSION
2
The location of a
project in its
watershed shapes
both urban design and
stormwater
decisions.
For urban design, site
based solutions are
the wrong approach.
Stormwater policies
and regulations must
recognize this fact. UNIVERSITY AVENUE, PITTSBURGH
AND McDANIEL BRANCH GREENWAY
60. CONCLUSION
3
High performance site
design, for urban
design and
stormwater, can
combine greenways as
incentives for
revitalization and
new development.
MADDOX PARK, BOONE BOULEVARD AND
THE PROCTOR CREEK WATERSHED
61. CONCLUSION
4
Urban design can MANAGE
stormwater when
flooding cannot be
eliminated.
Combine retention and
detention in greenways,
swap land out of flood
plains, create new
development
opportunities.
COLONIAL HOMES, BOBBY JONES
GOLF COURSE AND PEACHTREE CREEK
62. STORMWATER IS AN URBAN DESIGN
PROBLEM
AND
URBAN DESIGN IS A STORMWATER
PROBLEM
I’d mention this as a Blueprints for Successful Communities project that is more issue/research-based than a public involvement process focusing on one community (the more traditional model). Our hopes for the end product are to not only put this information on our website and give more presentations but work through organizations such as GPA, AIA, GMA, ACCG, and professional engineering groups to advertise this approach as more cost-effective, productive and site and environmentally appropriate, etc. The theme of this blueprints process is to develop urban design recommendations for four sites within the City of Atlanta. These recommendations will specifically address complex stormwater issues, taking into account the nearby stream or creek at each site. Urbanization has caused the loss of wetlands, vegetative cover, forests, an increase in impervious surfaces and changes in the soil that constitute a watershed’s carrying capacity to slow, spread, and stock stormwater. Low impact development solutions promote the use of pervious surfaces to remediate non-point source pollution and peak flow or runoff after a storm. Each project must be one that involves new development or redevelopment so that the students must prepare a framework for development, and then integrate stormwater within that. This helps ensure that the project is not just a retrofit of stormwater applications, but helps provide realistic solutions for other applicable sites.
I’d mention this as a Blueprints for Successful Communities project that is more issue/research-based than a public involvement process focusing on one community (the more traditional model). Our hopes for the end product are to not only put this information on our website and give more presentations but work through organizations such as GPA, AIA, GMA, ACCG, and professional engineering groups to advertise this approach as more cost-effective, productive and site and environmentally appropriate, etc. The theme of this blueprints process is to develop urban design recommendations for four sites within the City of Atlanta. These recommendations will specifically address complex stormwater issues, taking into account the nearby stream or creek at each site. Urbanization has caused the loss of wetlands, vegetative cover, forests, an increase in impervious surfaces and changes in the soil that constitute a watershed’s carrying capacity to slow, spread, and stock stormwater. Low impact development solutions promote the use of pervious surfaces to remediate non-point source pollution and peak flow or runoff after a storm. Each project must be one that involves new development or redevelopment so that the students must prepare a framework for development, and then integrate stormwater within that. This helps ensure that the project is not just a retrofit of stormwater applications, but helps provide realistic solutions for other applicable sites.
Atlanta’s watersheds (7) and the Atlanta metro area defined in black. John Wesley Powell, scientist geographer, put it best when he said that a watershed is: “that area of land, a bounded hydrologic system, within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course and where, as humans settled, simple logic demanded that they become part of a community”