Title & Author:

Water index : design strategies for drought, flooding and contamination / editor, Seth McDowell, Assistant Professor in Architecture.

Publication:

[Charlottesville] Virginia : University of Virginia School of Architecture ; New York : Actar D Inc., 2016.

Description:

280 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
A hydrological tragedy in three acts : introduction / Seth McDowell -- People and the rising sea / Orrin Pilkey and Rob Young -- Catastrophe / Tracy Metz -- The Delta works project / Benjamin Gregory -- The spectacle of water and machine : the ideologies at work in the Bonnet Carre Spillway openings of 1937 and 2011 / Travis K. Bost -- Hydropolis / Marion Ottman, Margaux Leycuras and Anne-Hina Mallette -- Governors Island Park / West 8 and Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects -- Connections on uncertain ground / Benjamin Gregory and Ed Ford -- Aranzadi Park / Aldayjover Architecture and Landscape -- Swamp thing : Smart grid, smarter water management in New Orleans / Isaac Cohen, Kate Hayes, and Jorg Sieweke -- Watersquare Benthemplein / De Urbanisten -- The bacteriological city and its discontents / Matthew Gandy -- Bringing the serpent's tail into the serpent's mouth : Edwin Chadwick and the 'sanitary idea' in England / Martin V. Melosi -- Deepwater Horizon oil spill / Benjamin Gregory -- Whitney water purification facility + park / Steven Holl Architects and Michael Van Valkenburgh and Associates -- Seeping boundaries : informal infrastructures of dirt., demolition, and sewage in the West Bank / Suzanne Harris-Brandts -- Dendritic zoning : establishing a new urban gradient in the Garden State / Kimberly Garza -- A green sponge for a water-resilient city : Qunli Stormwater Park / Turenscape -- Shanghai Houtan Park : landscape as a living system / Turenscape -- Vintondale Reclamation Park / D.I.R.T.. Studio -- Parallel networks / Op.N (Ali Fard and Ghazal Jafari) -- Water core home / Dan Williamson, David Karle, and Sarah Thomas Karle -- Detoxi-city / Zuhal Kol, Rodney Bell, and Julia Gamolina -- The urban spring : formalizing the water system of Los Angeles / William Morrish -- Reconstructing the void : Owens Lake / Barry Lehrman -- Draining the oasis / Benjamin Gregory -- Sea tree / Waterstudio -- Winton Wetland restoration / Taylor Cullity Lethlean -- Lima beyond the park / Antje Stokman, Bernd Eisenberg, Eva Nemcova, and Rossana Poblet -- Wash : urban hydrological networks for resilient cultural ecologies / Aja Bulla-Richards -- Immaterial water / Izaskun Gonzalez Barredo and Oriol Valls Guinovart.

Summary:

"Highlights critical design projects from around the world that radically engage the fragile issues of drought, flooding, and contamination, revealing opportunistic, adaptive design strategies in response to the mounting global crisis. Water Index is a collective vision of the future that provides solutions for every continent and spans the disciplines of urban design, landscape architecture and architecture"--From back cover.

ISBN:

9781940291406 (soft cover)
1940291402

Subject:

Architecture Conservation and restoration.
Water in landscape architecture.
Watershed management.
Water quality management.
Architecture Conservation et restauration.
Eau dans l'architecture du paysage.
Bassins hydrographiques Gestion.
Eau Qualité Gestion.
water quality management.
Environment and ecology.
Environment and Ecology.

Added entries:

McDowell, Seth, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299666
Call No.: BIB 245818
Status: Available