Main entry:

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Community Design Center, author.

Title & Author:

Conway urban watershed framework plan : a reconciliation landscape for Little Creek-Palarm Creek sub-watershed / University of Arkansas Community Design Center.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

[Novato, California] : ORO Editions, [2017]
©2017

Description:

177 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introducing watersheds, cities, and farms as energy systems / Stephen Luoni -- Urban eco-hydrology: designing resilience for human systems / Marty D. Matlock -- Executive summary -- Context characterization -- Problemscape ; Urban watershed framework plan -- Lake restoration -- Green streets and parks -- Parking garden -- Urban eco-farm -- Conservation development -- City greenway -- Ecological design principles -- Glossary.

Summary:

More than half of America's waterbodies are unsafe for swimming, fishing, and as sources of drinking water due to anthropogenic activity. Considering that city and watershed are often conflicting systems of flow, generating their own shape and structure across the landscape: how can city form fix the watershed and what does an urban watershed plan look like? The Conway Urban Watershed Framework Plan introduces watershed management concepts into urban design for a city with severe water management problems. More a rihizomatic plan than a master plan, soft infrastructural retrofits include green sheets, water treatment art parks, urban eco-farms, conservation neighborhoods, parking gardens, lake aerators, vegetative harvesters, floating biomats, and a city greenway to improve riparian corridors. This transferable resilience planning vocabulary aligns the metabolism of the city with that of the watershed. Solutions are benchmarked to the 17 ecological services provided by healthy ecosystems, improving the ability of communities to remedy stressors that adversely affect the resilience of urban systems. The plan shows that repair of degraded urban streams can be a powerful agent for reinventing the physical environments and ecological performance in post-industrial cities.

ISBN:

9781939621818 (paperback)
193962181X (paperback)

Subject:

City planning United States.
Watershed management United States.
Urban watersheds United States.
City planning Arkansas Conway.
Bassins hydrographiques Gestion États-Unis.
Bassins versants urbains États-Unis.
City planning.
Urban watersheds.
Watershed management.
Buildings.
Conway (Ark.) Buildings, structures, etc.
United States.
Arkansas Conway.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 297602
Call No.: BIB 243965
Status: Available