Water sensitive urban design for today's and future climates
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2012
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Beecham, S.
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Ng, C.K.
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EnCon 2012: Proceedings Of The 5th Engineering Conference Engineering Towards Change, Empowering Green Solutions, 2012 / Ng, C.K. (ed./s), pp.304-308
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EnCon 2012: 5th Engineering Conference (10 Jul 2012 - 12 Jul 2012 : Kuching, Malaysia)
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Due to increasing land costs and reduced land availability in highly populated cities, there is considerable attention being paid to multifunctional urban land use. For example, many city road and rail transport systems are now being placed underground. This same pressure on land availability is now impacting on designs of urban water systems and particularly on stormwater systems. Using Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Adelaide, Australia as case studies, this paper discusses how both cities are now developing water sensitive urban design systems and both have recently been developing technical guidelines to support the implementation of these systems. Despite their many advantages, most current water sensitive urban design systems still often involve dedicating quite large land areas to a single land use such as water quality treatment, flood control or water conservation.
This paper also investigates how multifunctional land use can be achieved using innovative approaches to urban water management. In this way, the same land corridors can provide integrated flood storage, water conservation and reuse facilities, social amenity and habitat connections. Such an approach could lead to the release of flood fringe areas for development and this could be a potential economic driver leading to higher level outcomes such as enhancement of urban ecology.
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Copyright 2012 The Authors