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Water centric sustainable communities : planning, retrofitting, and building the next urban environment
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Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2010
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xviii, 606 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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9780470476086

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Summary

The current literature compartmentalizes the complex issue of water and wastewater into its discrete components; technology, planning, policy, construction, economics, etc. Considered from the perspective of sustainability, however, water in the urban environment must be approached as a single resource that can be continuously reused and recycled. This book will be the first to capture all of the current work on this idea in a single, integrated, plan for designing the water-centric cities of the future. From new construction to the retrofitting of existing systems, this book presents the case for a new urban relationship to water, one with a more sustainable connection to the environment and the hydrological cycle. Through case studies of successfully planned and built systems around the world, the book will educate the reader about the need for a new approach to urban water management, and make the case that these changes are not only possible but imperative.


Author Notes

Vladimir Novotny is Professor at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and Emeritus Professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is also President of AquaNova, LLC.

Jack Ahern is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Paul Brown is Executive Vice President at CDM in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is also Technical Director of the Neysadurai Centre for Integrated Water Resources and Urban Planning in Singapore.


Table of Contents

Chapter I Historic Paradigms of Urban Water/Stormwater//Wastewater Management and Drivers for Change
I.1 Introduction
I.2 Historic Paradigms - From Ancient Cities to 20th Century
I.3 Drivers for Change towards Sustainability
I.4 21st Century and Beyond
References
Chapter II Urban Sustainability Concepts
II.1 Vision of Sustainability
II.2 Sustainability Concept and Definitions
II.3 Towards the Fifth Paradigm of Sustainability
II.4 Cities of the Future - Water Centric Ecocities
II.5 Ecocity/ecovillage concepts
References
Chapter III Planning and Design for Sustainable and Resilient Cities: Theories, Strategies and Best Practices for Green Infrastructure
III.1 Introduction
III.2 Ecosystem Services
III.3 Planning for Resilient and Sustainable Cities
III.4 Best Practices for Green Infrastructure
III.V Discussion
References
Chapter IV Stormwater Pollution Abatement and Flood Control - Stormwater as a Resource
IV.1 Urban Stormwater - Problem or an Asset
IV.2 Best Management Practices to Control Urban Runoff for Reuse
IV.3 LID Urban Drainage- a Step to the Cities of the Future
References
V Water Demand and Conservation
V.1 Water Use
V.2 Water Conservation
V.3 Substitute and Supplemental Water Sources
References
Chapter VI Water Reclamation and Reuse
VI.1 Introduction
VI.2 Water Reclamation and Reuse
VI.3 Water Quality Goals and Limits for Selecting Technologies
References
Chapter VII Treatment and Resource Recovery Unit Processes
VII. 1 Brief Description of Traditional Water and Resource Reclamation Technologies
VII.2 Sludge Handling and Resource Recovery
VII.3 Nutrient Recovery
VII.4 Membrane Filtration and Reverse Osmosis
VII.5 Disinfection
VII 6 Energy and GHG Emission Issues in Water Reclamation Plants
VII 7 Evaluation and Selection of Decentralized Water Reclamation Technologies
References
Chapter VIII Energy and Urban Water Systems - Towards Net Zero Carbon Footprint
VIII.1 Interconnection of Water and Energy
VIII.2 Energy Conservation in Buildings and Ecoblocks
VIII.3 Energy From Renewable Sources
VIII.4 Energy from Used Water and Waste Organic Solids
VIII.5 Direct Electric Energy Production from Biogas and Used Water
VIII.6 Summary and a Look into the Future
VIII.7 Overall Energy Outlook - Anticipating the Future
References
Chapter IX Restoring Urban Streams
IX.1 Introduction
IX.2 Adverse Impacts of Urbanization to be Remedied
IX.3 Water Body Restoration in the Context of Future Water Centric (Eco)Cities
IX.4 Summary and Conclusions
ReferenceS
Chapter X Planning and Management of Sustainable Future Communities
X.1 Integrated Planning and Management
X.2 Urban Planning
X.3 Integrated Resources Management (IRM)
X.4 Clusters and Ecoblocks - Distributed Systems
X.5 Institutions
References
Chapter XI Ecocities Evaluation and Synthesis
XI.1 Introduction
XI.2 Case Studies
XI.3 Brief Summary
References
Appendix
Index