Framing water sensitive urban design as part of the urban form: A critical review of tools for best planning practice

Kuller, Martijn; Bach, Peter M.; Ramírez-Lovering, Diego; Deletić, Ana

doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.07.003

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“…Our findings concur with Schifman et al (2017) and Kuller et al (2018) that biophysical site characteristics are better accounted for in GI projects whilst social and economic factors are more often overlooked. Clearly, key gaps in the literature remain around the social objectives and outcomes of deculverting schemes, judging by an over-reliance on the relevant strands of review papers or synopsis reports (e.g.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…or will necessarily manifest itself in volunteer capacity to support deculverting schemes. This is bound up with issues of social equity and social cohesion (Kuller et al, 2018), and can help our understanding of why some daylighting projects may flourish or fail. Differences in community capacity and access to power, manifest through bottom-up action, may risk an unequal distribution of access to environmental quality improvements which may become more prevalent in more affluent districts Mathers et al 2015).…”

Section: Deculverting the Daylighting And Restoration Of Culverted Rimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: Deculverting the Daylighting And Restoration Of Culverted Rimentioning

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“…In addition, to analyze the effects of urban form on urban water systems, the results of Mikovits et al [19] showed that reasonable spatial planning can reduce the negative effects caused by population growth on drainage system performance, which indicates the potential effects of urban form on drainage systems. Applying water-sensitive urban design (WSUD) in Australia, researchers found that green technologies should also be regarded as an integral part of the urban form [20]. The concepts of green infrastructure (GI), low-impact development (LID), and sustainable urban drainage system (SUDS) as the methods to reduce runoff and mitigate the negative effects of urbanization received lots of research attention [21,22]; since these green measures could provide hydrological and bioecological benefits on different spatial scales, there are, thus, additional challenges in the planning of these measures [23].…”

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Effects of Urban Forms on Separate Drainage Systems: A Virtual City Perspective

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The development of urban drainage systems is challenged by rapid urbanization; however, little attention is paid to the urban form and its effects on these systems. This study develops an integrated city-drainage model that configures typical urban forms and their associated drainage infrastructures, specifically domestic wastewater and rainwater systems, to analyze the relationship between them. Three typical types of urban forms were investigated: the square, the star, and the strip. Virtual cities were designed first, with the corresponding drainage systems generated automatically and then linked to a model herein called the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM). Evaluation was based on 200 random configurations of wastewater/rainwater systems with different structures or attributes. The results show that urban forms play more important roles on three dimensions of performance, namely economic efficiency, effectiveness, and adaptability, of the rainwater systems than of the wastewater systems. Cost is positively correlated to the effectiveness of rainwater systems among the different urban forms, while adaptability is negatively correlated to the other two performance dimensions. Regardless of the form, it is difficult for a city to make its drainage systems simultaneously cost-effective, efficient, and adaptable based on the virtual cities we investigated. This study could inspire the urban planning of both built-up and to-be-built areas to become more sustainable with their drainage infrastructure by recognizing the pros and cons of different macroscale urban forms.

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“…With these three different classes of decision-making criteria, identical rankings of the sites were obtained [58]. Thus, as concluded by Kuller et al [47], although a set of GIS-MCDA tools and frameworks have been developed, none of them are sufficient and comprehensive. In addition, in another review by Lerer et al [59], they concluded that there is a lack of a comprehensive model that covers all physically-based aspects (referred to as "How Much models") and human aspects (referred to as "Where and Which" models).…”

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The Low-Impact Development Demand Index: A New Approach to Identifying Locations for LID

Kaykhosravi

Abogadil

Khan

et al. 2019

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The primary goal of low impact development (LID) is to capture urban stormwater runoff; however, multiple indirect benefits (environmental and socioeconomic benefits) also exist (e.g., improvements to human health and decreased air pollution). Identifying sites with the highest demand or need for LID ensures the maximization of all benefits. This is a spatial decision-making problem that has not been widely addressed in the literature and was the focus of this research. Previous research has focused on finding feasible sites for installing LID, whilst only considering insufficient criteria which represent the benefits of LID (either neglecting the hydrological and hydraulic benefits or indirect benefits). This research considered the hydrological and hydraulic, environmental, and socioeconomic benefits of LID to identify sites with the highest demand for LID. Specifically, a geospatial framework was proposed that uses publicly available data, hydrological-hydraulic principles, and a simple additive weighting (SAW) method within a hierarchical decision-making model. Three indices were developed to determine the LID demand: (1) hydrological-hydraulic index (HHI), (2) socioeconomic index (SEI), and (3) environmental index (ENI). The HHI was developed based on a heuristic model using hydrological-hydraulic principles and validated against the results of a physical model, the Hydrologic Engineering Center-Hydrologic Modeling System model (HEC-HMS). The other two indices were generated using the SAW hierarchical model and then incorporated into the HHI index to generate the LID demand index (LIDDI). The framework was applied to the City of Toronto, yielding results that are validated against historical flooding records.

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Framing water sensitive urban design as part of the urban form: A critical review of tools for best planning practice

Cited by 125 publications

References 123 publications

Volunteered information on nature-based solutions — Dredging for data on deculverting

Volunteered information on nature-based solutions — Dredging for data on deculverting

Effects of Urban Forms on Separate Drainage Systems: A Virtual City Perspective

The Low-Impact Development Demand Index: A New Approach to Identifying Locations for LID

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