Integrating Sponge City Requirements into the Management of Urban Development Land: An Improved Methodology for Sponge City Implementation
Sponge city planning aims to manage urban development land to prevent flooding and to support the achievement of water resource protection objectives. In this study, from the perspective of rainfall management demand and ability, we present an improved planning method, including two calculation mode...
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| description | Sponge city planning aims to manage urban development land to prevent flooding and to support the achievement of water resource protection objectives. In this study, from the perspective of rainfall management demand and ability, we present an improved planning method, including two calculation models, aimed at determining the VCRAR (volume capture ratio of annual rainfall) and then integrating VCRAR requirements into the management of urban development land more accurately and objectively, while simultaneously considering the rainfall condition and urban planning attributes to support the implementation of sponge city planning. Compared to the current method, the VCRAR calculation model greatly improves the accuracy of the VCRAR for various space scales, and the conversion model solves the fundamental problem that urban land indicators corresponding to the VCRAR are difficult to calculate objectively and accurately. Moreover, this methodology can achieve a reasonable tradeoff between the development of individual districts and the environmental protection of the whole urban watershed, which allows a poetic vision to be turned into executable planning and design. The results of the application of this methodology in a case study in Jizhou, China, show that the improved method can make land utilization, development period and natural conditions more integrated and scientifically involved in the indicator calculation. The results also quantitatively show that the capacity of volume capture inside the site for one district increases as its green space ratio increases, and it decreases with an increase in the transformation difficulty for stormwater management facilities, when restricted by the investment and available space. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1c562bd6dc344ceb8139c9a36f6902642023-12-01T00:21:03ZengMDPI AGWater2073-44412022-04-01147115610.3390/w14071156Integrating Sponge City Requirements into the Management of Urban Development Land: An Improved Methodology for Sponge City ImplementationDongdong Yang0Xin Zhao1Bruce C. Anderson2School of Architecture, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, ChinaSchool of Civil Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, ChinaSchool of Architecture, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, ChinaSponge city planning aims to manage urban development land to prevent flooding and to support the achievement of water resource protection objectives. In this study, from the perspective of rainfall management demand and ability, we present an improved planning method, including two calculation models, aimed at determining the VCRAR (volume capture ratio of annual rainfall) and then integrating VCRAR requirements into the management of urban development land more accurately and objectively, while simultaneously considering the rainfall condition and urban planning attributes to support the implementation of sponge city planning. Compared to the current method, the VCRAR calculation model greatly improves the accuracy of the VCRAR for various space scales, and the conversion model solves the fundamental problem that urban land indicators corresponding to the VCRAR are difficult to calculate objectively and accurately. Moreover, this methodology can achieve a reasonable tradeoff between the development of individual districts and the environmental protection of the whole urban watershed, which allows a poetic vision to be turned into executable planning and design. The results of the application of this methodology in a case study in Jizhou, China, show that the improved method can make land utilization, development period and natural conditions more integrated and scientifically involved in the indicator calculation. The results also quantitatively show that the capacity of volume capture inside the site for one district increases as its green space ratio increases, and it decreases with an increase in the transformation difficulty for stormwater management facilities, when restricted by the investment and available space.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/14/7/1156sponge citystormwater managementvolume capture ratio of annual rainfallgreen space ratiourban development land |
| spellingShingle | Dongdong Yang Xin Zhao Bruce C. Anderson Integrating Sponge City Requirements into the Management of Urban Development Land: An Improved Methodology for Sponge City Implementation Water sponge city stormwater management volume capture ratio of annual rainfall green space ratio urban development land |
| title | Integrating Sponge City Requirements into the Management of Urban Development Land: An Improved Methodology for Sponge City Implementation |
| title_full | Integrating Sponge City Requirements into the Management of Urban Development Land: An Improved Methodology for Sponge City Implementation |
| title_fullStr | Integrating Sponge City Requirements into the Management of Urban Development Land: An Improved Methodology for Sponge City Implementation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Integrating Sponge City Requirements into the Management of Urban Development Land: An Improved Methodology for Sponge City Implementation |
| title_short | Integrating Sponge City Requirements into the Management of Urban Development Land: An Improved Methodology for Sponge City Implementation |
| title_sort | integrating sponge city requirements into the management of urban development land an improved methodology for sponge city implementation |
| topic | sponge city stormwater management volume capture ratio of annual rainfall green space ratio urban development land |
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