‘Stream Daylighting’ as an approach for the renaturalization of riverine systems in urban areas: Istanbul-Ayamama Stream case

Delibas, Meltem; Tezer, Azime

doi:10.1016/j.ecohyd.2016.12.007

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“…Similarly, Genoa's (Italy) 2014 flash flood is attributed to the culverting of 28 of the city's 66 urban streams (Faccini et al, 2018) while Yonkers's (New York, USA) frequent sewage overflows during the 1990s were the adverse consequences of culverting the Saw Mill River in 1920 (García, 2017). In the Near East, Istanbul's (Turkey) consistent flooding between 1999 and 2009 ensued from the burial and channelization of the Ayamama Stream which resulted in frequent loss of life and property damage (Delibas and Tezer, 2017).…”

Section: Regulatory Ecosystem Services: More Than Just Water Under the Bridgementioning

confidence: 99%

Reading an Urban Palimpsest: How the Gradual Loss of an Urban Stream Impacts Urban Form's Connections and Ecosystem Functions

2021

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Fluvial reclamation to facilitate urban development leads to culverting, hence, a loss of urban streams. Using the palimpsest analogy, we examine how the Amman Stream in Amman (Jordan) historically provided regulatory and socio-cultural ecosystem services through its socio-spatial (longitudinal, lateral, and vertical) connections. We then explore the impact of the stream's culverting, partially in 1967 then completely in 1997, on these connections and, consequently, on ecosystem services. To overcome data paucity, our methodology relied on constructing spatial data by georeferencing and digitizing aerial photos and satellite images (from 1953, 1975, 1992, and 2000) using ArcGIS. We augmented our data with archival research (historic and contemporary documents and maps), an online survey among Amman's residents, and in situ observations and photography. The results reveal striking contrasts between the historic and contemporary configuration of urban form vis-à-vis the Amman Stream. Throughout its early urban history during the Classical and early Islamic periods, the urban form elements reflected reverence and prudence toward the Amman Stream as manifested in the investment in water infrastructure and the alignment of thoroughfares, civic monuments, and bridges that collectively capitalized on the land relief (the strath) and established strong connections with the Amman Stream, maximizing, in the process, its regulatory and socio-cultural services. In contrast, the contemporary urban form replaced the stream with car-oriented roads, hence, eradicated its regulatory services and replaced its socio-spatial connections with urban socio-economic and cultural fissures. Accordingly, we propose to daylight (de-culvert) the Amman Stream to restore its regulatory and socio-cultural services and its socio-spatial connections. We substantiate the feasibility of daylighting through: (1) morphological analysis that reveals that roads cover most of the stream; (2) the survey's findings that indicate public support; and (3) the cascading benefits for the larger watershed in a water insecure region.

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Section: Regulatory Ecosystem Services: More Than Just Water Under the Bridgementioning

confidence: 99%

Reading an Urban Palimpsest: How the Gradual Loss of an Urban Stream Impacts Urban Form's Connections and Ecosystem Functions

2021

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“…Background to the development of the website www.daylighting.org.uk is provided in Wild et al (2011), . Work commenced with support from the EPSRC-funded project www.ursula.group.shef.ac.uk, drawing on experiences of daylighting projects in Glasgow and Edinburgh (Darlow et al, 2003), and works in Zurich, Switzerland. The context for this research was the emergence of "CC (2009) spatial planning policy including a presumption for developments to deliver deculverting.…”

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Wild

Dempsey

Broadhead

2019

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

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“…Thus, in urban and industrial areas (including all the related infrastructures), nature reintroduction can be achieved in a large measure, through recovering or reintroducing near‐to‐natural hydrological structures, by deculverting (or daylighting) buried watercourses (Wild, Bernet, Westling, & Lerner, ; Broadhead, Horn, & Lerner, ; Delibas & Tezer, ), and building, promoting or maintaining many other green structures as multifunctional water retention and storm water control areas that simultaneously create leisure zones and diversified habitats.…”

Section: Reintroduction Nature In Cultural Landscapesmentioning

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Nature‐based solutions: The need to increase the knowledge on their potentialities and limits

Fernandes

Guiomar

2018

Land Degrad Dev

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This paper analyzes the concept of nature‐based solutions as instruments to turn anthromes more nature compatible, efficient, causing less degradation, and developing new biodiversity hotspots. It is mainly focused on solutions using living organisms (in particular plants and microorganisms) to perform functions such as those of soil‐ and water‐bioengineering interventions in order to ensure the safety of human infrastructures and constructions in contexts of conflict between natural processes and human needs. Further, it handles the problematic of reintroducing natural processes and functions in the built environment (urban, industrial, infrastructures, etc.) in order to recover, recreate, or reinvent nature in humanized landscapes and developing a more creative relation between humans and natural elements, processes, and functions. It presents, furthermore, the contribution of natural solutions to a wide variety of decontamination processes and prevention and recovery of degraded land and natural resources. Finally, we discuss the way these solutions can be implemented and the cultural, organizational, administrative and governance, paradigmatic, and practice changes it implies. Examples are given on the different issues presented as well on the possible implementation solutions.

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‘Stream Daylighting’ as an approach for the renaturalization of riverine systems in urban areas: Istanbul-Ayamama Stream case

Cited by 18 publications

References 12 publications

Reading an Urban Palimpsest: How the Gradual Loss of an Urban Stream Impacts Urban Form's Connections and Ecosystem Functions

Reading an Urban Palimpsest: How the Gradual Loss of an Urban Stream Impacts Urban Form's Connections and Ecosystem Functions

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

Nature‐based solutions: The need to increase the knowledge on their potentialities and limits

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