The Evolution of Urban Hydrology: Past, Present, and Future

Delleur, J. W.

doi:10.1061/(asce)0733-9429(2003)129:8(563)

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“…Salt Lake City followed a characteristic transition that has been observed in other cities: the centralized storm sewer was developed in early city development followed by a shift to decentralized practices in the 1970s. This trajectory matches well with patterns observed in specific cities [5,20] and general descriptions of paradigm shifts [12,17,18,21]. Patterns of infrastructure use in the newer cities, however, did not fit this model.…”

Section: Moving To a More Nuanced Understanding Of Urban Water Managesupporting

confidence: 68%

“…Earlier work has suggested that the time of urbanization is an important determinant of the type of stormwater infrastructure used in a particular location within a city [5,9,18]. However, the different trajectories followed by these three cities suggests that the time of urbanization for the city as a whole, rather than locations within a city, could determine the trajectory of infrastructure use.…”

Section: Moving To a More Nuanced Understanding Of Urban Water Managementioning

confidence: 97%

“…However, the different trajectories followed by these three cities suggests that the time of urbanization for the city as a whole, rather than locations within a city, could determine the trajectory of infrastructure use. This is important because it presents a much more complex and nuanced picture of urban change than previous reviews which suggest that cities all follow similar or identical paths [17,18,20]. We know from urban metabolism studies that cities can follow different trajectories [23,44], yet it is particularly important to understand how and why stormwater infrastructure trajectories vary across cities.…”

Section: Moving To a More Nuanced Understanding Of Urban Water Managementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other authors have noted that for stormwater management and urban hydrology in general, the problems and objectives of management have shifted over time, in particular from a single focus on reducing urban flooding to the inclusion of water quality and the effects of stormwater on the environment [12,17,18,20]. The solutions available for stormwater management have also changed at broad scales.…”

Section: Paradigm Shifts In Stormwater Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…How urban hydrologic landscapes are designed and the objectives they are meant to address have changed over time at large [16][17][18] and local scales [4,5,19]. Much of the urban stream and urban hydrology literature assumes that all urban systems follow the same trajectory of change from no infrastructure, to centralized storm sewer systems, to decentralized systems and the use of green infrastructure [12,17,18,20,21], leading to relatively homogenous current conditions across cities [3,22].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Spatial and Temporal Variation in Local Stormwater Infrastructure Use and Stormwater Management Paradigms over the 20th Century

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Stormwater management has significant consequences for urban hydrology, water quality, and flood risk, and has changed substantially over history, but it is unknown how these paradigm shifts play out at the local scale and whether local changes in stormwater infrastructure use follow similar trajectories across cities. This research addressed: (1) How does current infrastructure use and past infrastructure transitions vary across three cities with similar biophysical and climatic contexts but different development histories? and (2) How did stormwater and flood management paradigms change from early urbanization to current day in a single city? The use of storm sewers, detention basins, and canals for stormwater management was quantified for three cities in Utah, USA, over the 20th century. Stormwater management paradigms were quantified using media content analysis of newspaper articles from historic and recent periods in Salt Lake City. Results suggest that stormwater infrastructure development is decoupled from imperviousness across cities, and that newer and smaller cities follow different trajectories of stormwater management over time. This research highlights that there is no single model of urban hydrology and that heterogeneity in urban water management over time and space reflects shifting priorities and social learning.

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Situating Green Infrastructure in Context: A Framework for Adaptive Socio‐Hydrology in Cities

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Management of urban hydrologic processes using green infrastructure (GI) has largely focused on storm water management. Thus, design and implementation of GI usually rely on physical site characteristics and local rainfall patterns, and do not typically account for human or social dimensions. This traditional approach leads to highly centralized storm water management in a disconnected urban landscape and can deemphasize additional benefits that GI offers, such as increased property value, greenspace aesthetics, heat island amelioration, carbon sequestration, and habitat for biodiversity. We propose the Framework for Adaptive Socio‐Hydrology (FrASH) in which GI planning and implementation moves from a purely hydrology‐driven perspective to an integrated sociohydrological approach. This allows for an iterative, multifaceted decision‐making process that would enable a network of stakeholders to collaboratively set a dynamic, context‐guided project plan for the installation of GI, rather than a “one‐size‐fits‐all” installation. We explain how different sectors (e.g., governance, nongovernmental organizations, communities, academia, and industry) can create a connected network of organizations that work toward a common goal. Through a graphical Chambered Nautilus model, FrASH is experimentally applied to contrasting GI case studies and shows that this multistakeholder, connected, decentralized network with a coevolving decision‐making project plan results in enhanced multifunctionality, potentially allowing for the management of resilience in urban systems at multiple scales.

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The Evolution of Urban Hydrology: Past, Present, and Future

Cited by 79 publications

References 26 publications

Spatial and Temporal Variation in Local Stormwater Infrastructure Use and Stormwater Management Paradigms over the 20th Century

Spatial and Temporal Variation in Local Stormwater Infrastructure Use and Stormwater Management Paradigms over the 20th Century

Situating Green Infrastructure in Context: A Framework for Adaptive Socio‐Hydrology in Cities

Technologies for Compost Production from Plant Byproducts

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