The Art of Sustainable Stormwater

Designing Blue-Green Cities

This book explores how stormwater can become an amenity when designers artfully capture, detain, treat and re-use rainwater, using it to generate more habitable and environmentally sustainable cities. It features global case studies and provides useful planning and design principles for stormwater management.

The Art of Sustainable Stormwater: Designing Blue-Green Cities explores the needs and possibilities for transforming stormwater engineering into design for ecological and multi-functional urban spaces. With climate change and rapid urbanization causing rainfall runoff to present increasingly severe problems in cities and metropolitan regions, this book shows how stormwater can become an amenity when designers artfully capture, detain, treat and re-use rainwater, using it to generate more habitable and environmentally and socially sustainable cities. Taking a global approach, it provides u