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Gary Grant - The Water Sensitive City - 9781118897669 - V9781118897669
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The Water Sensitive City

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Description for The Water Sensitive City Paperback. This book advocates a more thoughtful approach to urban water management. The approach involves reducing water consumption, harvesting rainwater, recycling rainwater and adopting Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) where surface water is not sent straight to drains but is intercepted by features like green roofs, rain gardens, swales and ponds. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: RNFD; RPC; TQSW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 193 x 250 x 16. Weight in Grams: 530.
This book advocates a more thoughtful approach to urban water management. The approach involves reducing water consumption, harvesting rainwater, recycling rainwater and adopting Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) where surface water is not sent straight to drains but is intercepted by features like green roofs, rain gardens, swales and ponds.Cities in particular need to change the existing linear model of water consumption and use to a more circular one in order to survive. The Water Sensitive City brings together the various specialised technical discussions that have been continuing for some time into a volume that is more accessible to designers (engineers ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781118897669
SKU
V9781118897669
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Gary Grant
Gary Grant is a Chartered Environmentalist, Member of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management, an Academician at the Academy of Urbanism, Member of the All Party Parliamentary Committee on Biodiversity, thesis supervisor at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, Chair of the Judges of the Integrated Habitats Design Competition and Director of the Green Roof ... Read more

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