Design with Nature: Key lessons from McHarg's intrinsic suitability in the wake of Hurricane Sandy

Wagner, Melissa; Merson, Joanna; Wentz, Elizabeth A.

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.06.013

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“…George Hundt Jr [4] indicated that McHarg's Baltimore master plan did not achieve houses' development, although it was effective for controlled development. Melissa Wagner [5], and Yang, B. [6] proved the usability of the original McHarg's land use plan for natural disasters.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…He showed that McHarg's master plan was very effective in developing new restrictions, but McHarg's approach was unable to induce new housing development. Melissa Wagner [5] and Yang, B. [6] pointed out that McHarg's 1970's original analysis for land suitability of New York Staten, Island, and planning of The Woodlands Texas were effective to avoid disasters respectively.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Holistic Landscape Planning`s Value for Natural Disaster Reconstruction: Willingness to Pay for New Residence in Different Reconstruction Planning Approaches

Uehara¹

2019

GEOMATE

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Practical evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of holistic landscape planning is limited because comprehensive decision-making is misunderstood as depriving individual sectors' authority and budgets. The author compared two municipalities' difference of recovery speed and the quality of relocation housing; Shinchi town and Soma city, which are this project subjects, had contrasting planning processes from 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami disaster. Shinch town has recovered by bottom-up the planning process and the author's natural disaster risk analysis, which based on 1969's McHarg's landscape planning principle. Whereas, Soma city has recovered by the top-down planning process, which was the same method as other municipalities affected by the tsunami. In this test, 263 students evaluated relocation houses' prices without any information about differences of the planning process. The author analyzed subjects' attribute data that could potentially affect their evaluation: sex, the environment in childhood, etc. T-test and multiple regression analysis were performed to evaluate the effects of differences of the planning process for the value of the house. Welch's T-test found the mean of relocation residential WTP ($). Shinchi town's house (mean=$185400) was significantly higher than that of Soma city (mean=$157680. t=15.9, p<2.2e-16 (twotailed), d.f.=3622.1), $1=￥100). Multiple linear regression was calculated to predict [WTP], based on [USP ： Under Shinchi town planning process] and [VDD ： Volunteer or donation to a disaster area].

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Holistic Landscape Planning`s Value for Natural Disaster Reconstruction: Willingness to Pay for New Residence in Different Reconstruction Planning Approaches

Uehara¹

2019

GEOMATE

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“…66,67 In fact, some studies have demonstrated that by working with nature and employing green approaches can lower the percentage of urban damage and mitigate future threats from tidal inundation and coastal flooding. 68 Other studies have shown how the use of green infrastructure and low-impact development can yield significant stormwater control particularly for small events and when combined with other best management practices provided runoff level controls for more intense…”

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Unequal Protection Revisited: Planning for Environmental Justice, Hazard Vulnerability, and Critical Infrastructure in Communities of Color

Hendricks

Zandt

2021

Environmental Justice

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Existing environmental justice (EJ) and hazard vulnerability literatures inadequately address key texts and topics related to critical physical infrastructure, including stormwater, green space, sewerage, energy, and roads, among other systems. This scoping review demonstrates how fundamental principles of EJ can bolster and compliment those of social vulnerability (SV) with a focus on stormwater systems and flood risks. The discussion and conceptual framework provide in-depth insight to how neighborhoods are not inherently vulnerable, but occupy built environments that are systematically sequestered, neglected, and underserved. Social processes and larger planning and development patterns shaped by power and privilege create areas of both prosperity and disadvantage. These outcomes are brought about specifically by early racial zoning, segregation, legalized redlining, and ultimately the isolation of racial minorities that have led to diminished tax bases and built environments in disrepair. Thus, infrastructural robustness and resilience at the neighborhood level result directly from human decisions and social ideologies of environmental racism and classism. The associated human-built environment manifests social and physical circumstances of damage and disease mentioned in both the SV and EJ literatures. The built environment must be explored with a progressive lens that views physical infrastructure as an extension of social circumstances to gain a comprehensive and robust understanding of how low-income communities and communities of color are unequally managed and protected in both daily environmental conditions and extreme events.

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“…Cities typically influence land usage patterns by replacing pervious surfaces with impervious ones, thus increasing surface runoff. Miguez [61] and Wagner [62] examined land use and the need to work with nature following urban sustainability. Vulnerable areas that should have been chosen as preservation, recreation or conservation areas were urbanized and overdeveloped due to the pressures of rapid suburbanization and the inappropriate zoning designations.…”

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Innovative Techniques in the Context of Actions for Flood Risk Management: A Review

Martínez

Bakheet²,

Akib

2020

Eng

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The general purpose of this review paper is to provide an overview of various flood protection strategies because flooding is becoming more frequent and is affecting more areas, displacing people, and increasing fatalities around the world. The concern surrounding climate change resulting in sea level rise, increasingly frequent storm events, and the need for adaptive actions to better control urban storm water runoff motivates the completion of this paper. Understanding the impact of climate change aside from dangerous weather conditions essential for designing effective mitigation strategies, but first, there needs to be a clear and strong understanding of the effects of extreme events. This review represents engineered storm water practices that are adaptive, in combination with the non-structural measures such as urban planning, will help reduce flood impact.

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Design with Nature: Key lessons from McHarg's intrinsic suitability in the wake of Hurricane Sandy

Cited by 24 publications

References 46 publications

Holistic Landscape Planning`s Value for Natural Disaster Reconstruction: Willingness to Pay for New Residence in Different Reconstruction Planning Approaches

Holistic Landscape Planning`s Value for Natural Disaster Reconstruction: Willingness to Pay for New Residence in Different Reconstruction Planning Approaches

Unequal Protection Revisited: Planning for Environmental Justice, Hazard Vulnerability, and Critical Infrastructure in Communities of Color

Innovative Techniques in the Context of Actions for Flood Risk Management: A Review

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