Beecham, S.Lehmann, S.Crocker, R.2025-12-172025-12-172012Source details - Title: Designing for zero waste: consumption, technologies and the built environment, 2012 / Lehmann, S., Crocker, R. (ed./s), vol.9780203146057, Ch.18, pp.374-3849781849714358https://hdl.handle.net/1959.8/120824There are often competing demands for the ever-decreasing available land space in our towns and cities. In many cities, this has led to new transport infrastructure going underground. However, most of our landspaces are still monofunctional, including the areas on which we currently park our cars. Not only is this not sustainable, into the future it will not be economically viable. This chapter explores the concept of multifunctional urban land use, with a specific emphasis on water-sensitive urban design (WSUD). Instead of dedicating areas of land to a single land use, such as water conservation, flood control, water-quality treatment or public amenity, the possibility of using the same land to serve all these purposes is explored through comparative case studies. A multifunctional approach to urban land use is presented thorugh which habitat connections, flood storage, water reuse and social amenity are all integrated into the same land corridors. This approach can be economically competitive, as it could potentially release flood prone fringe areas for development, which in turn could provide the economic driver to achieve higher-level outcomes, such as the enhancement of urban ecology.enCopyright 2012 Simon Beechamwater sensitiveurban designWSUDBook chapter10.4324/9780203146057