Multifunctional Urban Land uses through Sustainable Water Management
Date
2010
Authors
Beecham, S.
Editors
Bakar, A.A.
Badarulzaman, N.
Badarulzaman, N.
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Conference paper
Citation
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Built Environment in Developing Countries (ICBEDC 2010), 2010 / Bakar, A.A., Badarulzaman, N. (ed./s), pp.1-15
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Conference Name
ICBEDC 2010: International Conference on Built Environment in Developing Countries (2 Dec 2010 - 3 Dec 2010 : Penang, Malaysia)
Abstract
As our towns and cities expand and densify, there are often competing demands for the ever decreasing available land space. This has led to new transport infrastructure going underground in cities such as Sydney and to the development of multifunctional land use in Kuala Lumpur, through innovative technologies such as the SMART Tunnel. In both these cities, Water Sensitive Urban Design is now being adopted for more sustainable water management. However, even this still often involves dedicating areas of land to a single land use such as water conservation, flood control or water quality treatment. This paper investigates how traditional approaches to water resource management will present major constraints to new development and how this situation will be further exacerbated by climate change. It is argued that the future instead lies in multi-functional landuse where habitat connections, flood storage, water reuse and social amenity are all integrated in the same land corridors. This could potentially release flood fringe areas for development which in turn could provide the economic driver to achieve higher level outcomes such as enhancement of urban ecology. However, it is concluded that further research is needed to inform practice in this important area