Green Infrastructure: A Landscape Approach

ISBN-10: 161190062X
ISBN-13: 9781611900620
Series: Green Infrastructure
Category: Bioswales
Pages: 157
Language: English
Published: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Authors: David C. Rouse, Ignacio F. Bunster-Ossa

Description

Introduction -- Landscape planning, design, and green infrastructure -- Green infrastructure in practice -- Case studies: Green infrastructure at the regional scale (Cleveland and Northeast Ohio: Green infrastructure for a city in transition -- North Texas: returning to the trinity) -- Green infrastructure in large cities (Philadelphia: making the greenest city of America -- Seattle: a city’s journey toward sustainability) -- Green infrastructure in smaller communities (Lancaster, Pennsylvania: managing stormwater pollution and enhancing community through green infrastructure -- Lenexa, Kansas: rain to recreation -- Onondaga County, New York: save the rain) -- Parks, greenways, river corridors as green infrastructure (Birmingham, Alabama: a green infrastructure movement -- Los Angeles River: using green infrastructure to revitalize a city -- Louisville Metro, Kentucky: application of green infrastructure from region to site -- Menomonee Valley Park and Redevelopment, Milwaukee) -- Summarizing the case studies -- Appendix: a model regulatory framework for green infrastructure.