Water Centric Sustainable Communities: Planning, Retrofitting and Building the Next Urban Environment

Considered from the perspective of sustainability, water in the urban environment must be approached as a single resource that can be continuously reused and recycled. This book is 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 important text presents the case for a new urban relationship to water, one with a more sustainable connection to the environment and the hydrological cycle.