Stormwater Management is a multi-disciplinary endeavor
From the Editors
Stormwater management, once the exclusive purview of engineers, has moved in interesting directions to embrace many other disciplines. For example, as we were reviewing our array of professional journals and magazines like StormwaterPA for this Blog, we were impressed by two recent projects highlighted in the June issue of Landscape Architecture magazine. Two articles document and applaud the efforts of officials in Seattle (”Unpaved Paradise: A Stream Buried under Mall Parking Is Reborn as a Giant Bio-Swale” by Clair Enlow) and a single city dweller in San Francisco to integrate urban stormwater management into the landscape, as well as add nature back into culture (”From Gray to Green: A Designer Depaves San Francisco Neighborhoods, Encouraging Stormwater to Sink In and Residents to Enjoy Nature” by Losa Owens Viani). Both projects stimulated neighborhood revitalization on multiple levels. And there’s more. Two other articles in the journal, one on the development of the Gulf Coast in Florida as a model of environmental planning forty years ago (”Back from the Beach” by Daniel Jost), and the other (”A View from Below” by Robert Such) describing how a stream was reintegrated in the heart of Seoul, South Korea as a park, also demonstrate how landscape architects are becoming central to innovative stormwater management.
The articles in this months Landscape Architecture magazine highlight the efforts that landscape architects have played in the preservation of water systems and work within those natural drainage parameters to keep development as green as possible as well as balance cultures needs. A digital preview of the magazine is available at www.zinio.com. Go to the magazine tab, then select Home, then select Gardening. The American Society of Landscape Architects website is http://www.asla.org.
