Culturally inclusive water urban design: a critical history of hydrosocial infrastructures in Southern Sydney, Australia
Historic relationships between communities and waterscapes are complex and often explained solely in technical terms. There is a key need to understand how human-centered developments have shifted the use of river spaces over time, and how these changes reflect on the values of rivers and surroundin...
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| author | Taylor Coyne Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita David Reid Veljko Prodanovic |
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| description | Historic relationships between communities and waterscapes are complex and often explained solely in technical terms. There is a key need to understand how human-centered developments have shifted the use of river spaces over time, and how these changes reflect on the values of rivers and surrounding cultures. In this paper, we develop a critical analysis of the historically changing relationship between urban communities and water infrastructures using the Georges River catchment in Sydney, Australia. Our focus was on bringing together past and current perspectives, engaging with the formation of diverse hydrosocial behaviors entangled with water infrastructures. Using post-settlement historical documents, maps, journals, and newspaper articles, we trace shifts in hydrosocial perspectives over time, mapping six distinct historic phases. In our study, we offer a shift from the main paradigms currently influencing the development of urban water infrastructures, moving away from the dominant technical propositions of systems designed purely for the management and treatment of stormwater. Drawing on our analysis, we propose a new urban water design concept: Culturally Inclusive Water Urban Design (CIWUD). This presents an advancement on current framework to include a consideration of people's connections and uses of urban waterscapes, as well as a shift towards democratic space design. Highlights
Urban waterscape's history promotes understanding of diverse hydrosocial values.;
Six urban river historical phases highlights the shift towards democratic and inclusive design.;
Culturally Inclusive Water Urban Design links the social and the ecological values.;
Inclusive waterscapes design includes social, technical, cultural, ecological and political considerations.; |
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| spelling | doaj.art-40917ab79bc64caaa7ed30ededbbd3ca2022-12-21T17:22:29ZengIWA PublishingBlue-Green Systems2617-47822020-12-012136438210.2166/bgs.2020.017017Culturally inclusive water urban design: a critical history of hydrosocial infrastructures in Southern Sydney, AustraliaTaylor Coyne0Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita1David Reid2Veljko Prodanovic3 School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia Georges Riverkeeper, Hurstville, NSW, Australia School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia Historic relationships between communities and waterscapes are complex and often explained solely in technical terms. There is a key need to understand how human-centered developments have shifted the use of river spaces over time, and how these changes reflect on the values of rivers and surrounding cultures. In this paper, we develop a critical analysis of the historically changing relationship between urban communities and water infrastructures using the Georges River catchment in Sydney, Australia. Our focus was on bringing together past and current perspectives, engaging with the formation of diverse hydrosocial behaviors entangled with water infrastructures. Using post-settlement historical documents, maps, journals, and newspaper articles, we trace shifts in hydrosocial perspectives over time, mapping six distinct historic phases. In our study, we offer a shift from the main paradigms currently influencing the development of urban water infrastructures, moving away from the dominant technical propositions of systems designed purely for the management and treatment of stormwater. Drawing on our analysis, we propose a new urban water design concept: Culturally Inclusive Water Urban Design (CIWUD). This presents an advancement on current framework to include a consideration of people's connections and uses of urban waterscapes, as well as a shift towards democratic space design. Highlights Urban waterscape's history promotes understanding of diverse hydrosocial values.; Six urban river historical phases highlights the shift towards democratic and inclusive design.; Culturally Inclusive Water Urban Design links the social and the ecological values.; Inclusive waterscapes design includes social, technical, cultural, ecological and political considerations.;http://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2020.017culturally responsive designenvironmental historyhydrosocial cyclewaterscapeswater sensitive designwsud |
| spellingShingle | Taylor Coyne Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita David Reid Veljko Prodanovic Culturally inclusive water urban design: a critical history of hydrosocial infrastructures in Southern Sydney, Australia Blue-Green Systems culturally responsive design environmental history hydrosocial cycle waterscapes water sensitive design wsud |
| title | Culturally inclusive water urban design: a critical history of hydrosocial infrastructures in Southern Sydney, Australia |
| title_full | Culturally inclusive water urban design: a critical history of hydrosocial infrastructures in Southern Sydney, Australia |
| title_fullStr | Culturally inclusive water urban design: a critical history of hydrosocial infrastructures in Southern Sydney, Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Culturally inclusive water urban design: a critical history of hydrosocial infrastructures in Southern Sydney, Australia |
| title_short | Culturally inclusive water urban design: a critical history of hydrosocial infrastructures in Southern Sydney, Australia |
| title_sort | culturally inclusive water urban design a critical history of hydrosocial infrastructures in southern sydney australia |
| topic | culturally responsive design environmental history hydrosocial cycle waterscapes water sensitive design wsud |
| url | http://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2020.017 |
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