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049 _aCARIBET
050 _aNA9053.C6
_bW38 2016
245 _aWater index:
_bdesign strategies for drought, flooding and contamination;
_cedit by Seth McDowell
_htxt
264 _aNew York:
_bUniversity of Virginia :
_c[2016].
300 _a280 pages :
_billustrations (chiefly color) maps, plans
_c30 cm
_fbook
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
_btxt
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
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338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 _aA hydrological tragedy in three acts: introduction / Seth McDowell -- Act I. The rising : Call to action : People and the rising sea / Orrin Pilkey and Rob Young ; Catastrophe / Tracy Metz -- Defend : The Delta works project / Benjamin Gregory ; The spectacle of water and machine: the ideologies at work in the Bonnet Carre Spillway openings of 1937 And 2011 / Travis K. Bost ; Hydropolis / Marion Ottman, Margaux Leycuras and Anne-Hina Mallette -- Retreat : Governors Island Park / West 8 and Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects ; Connections on uncertain ground / Benjamin Gregory and Ed Ford -- Adapt : Aranzadi Park / Aldayjover Architecture and Landscape ; Swamp thing: Smart grid, smarter water management in New Orleans / Isaac Cohen, Kate Hayes, and Jorg Sieweke ; Watersquare Benthemplein / De Urbanisten -- Act II. The contaminated : Call to action : The bacteriological city and its discontents / Matthew Gandy ; Bringing the serpent's tail into the serpent's mouth: Edwin Chadwick and the `sanitary idea' in England / Martin V. Melosi -- Defend : Deepwater Horizon oil spill / Benjamin Gregory -- Whitney water purification facility + park / Steven Holl Architects and Michael Van Valkenburgh and Associates -- Retreat : Seeping boundaries: informal infrastructures of dirt, demolition, and sewage in the West Bank / Suzanne Harris-Brandts ; Dendritic zoning: establishing a new urban gradient in the Garden State / Kimberly Garza -- Adapt : A green sponge for a water-resilient city: Qunli Stormwater Park / Turenscape ; Shanghai Houtan Park: landscape as a living system / Turenscape ; Vintondale Reclamation Park / D.I.R.T.. Studio ; Parallel networks / Op.N (Ali Fard and Ghazal Jafari) ; Water core home / Dan Williamson, David Karle, and Sarah Thomas Karle ; Detoxi-city / Zuhal Kol, Rodney Bell, and Julia Gamolina -- Act III. The disappearing : Call to action : The urban spring: formalizing the water system of Los Angeles / William Morrish ; Reconstructing the void: Owens Lake / Barry Lehrman -- Defend : Draining the oasis / Benjamin Gregory -- Retreat : Sea tree / Waterstudio -- Adapt : Winton Wetland restoration / Taylor Cullity Lethlean ; Lima beyond the park / Antje Stokman, Bernd Eisenberg, Eva Nemcova, and Rossana Poblet ; Wash: urban hydrological networks for resilient cultural ecologies / Aja Bulla-Richards ; Immaterial water / Izaskun Gonzalez Barredo and Oriol Valls Guinovart.
520 _a "Highlights critical design projects from around the world that radically engage the fragile issues of drought, flooding, and contamination, revealing opportunistic, adaptive design strategies in response to the mounting global crisis. Water Index is a collective vision of the future that provides solutions for every continent and spans the disciplines of urban design, landscape architecture and architecture"--From back cover.
590 _aDIST. BY ACTAR. W/ PLANS, DRAWINGS, ELEVATIONS, ETC.
650 0 _9289634
_aWater in landscape architecture
_xDesign
650 0 _9289686
_aWatershed restoration
_xDesign
650 0 _9187491
_aWatershed management
650 0 _aWater quality management
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650 0 _9187414
_aWater conservation
856 _3ProQuest
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