Storm water management design

On the 2nd of July, 2011 large areas of the city of Copenhagen were flooded. Copenhagen is on the front line of climate change, experiencing increasingly heavy rain events, as they are also on the leading edge of urban innovation with a vision of transforming their city into a sustainable, C02 neutral city by 2025. Ramboll and Atelier Dreiseitl have been invited to create a “Cloudburst Concretization Masterplan” ...

21st Street, by SvR Design Company, the City is Paso Robles, California.

Sydney Park is located in St Peters in the city south, and is well known for its landmark high brick chimneys. This open space is made of grassland, landscape gardens,

East Tennessee’s iconic water resources are a sustaining economic, social, and environmental asset. These resources are vulnerable to impacts from prevailing development patterns in the region, human activities, and existing stormwater infrastructure. With the Plan East Tennessee Region’s population poised to grow forty-three percent by 2040, reliance upon these water resources will increase while their health is further threatened by expanding development. Low Impact Development methods…

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Environmentally innovative, beautiful and sustainable landscapes

Despite being an effective solution to water pollution, some city residents find bioswales unattractive and messy, as it pulls garbage from the street into the pit, as the New York Times reported. As part of the city’s $1.5 billion investment in green infrastructure, over 3,000 bioswales have been created in parts of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.

We have very limited source of drinkable water worldwide. However, we are not paying much attention to water conservation, instead, using more and more every year. According to US EPA, at least 36 …

Sydney Park is located in St Peters in the city south, and is well known for its landmark high brick chimneys. This open space is made of grassland, landscape gardens,