Cities and towns with the contemporary high density patterns of development are suffering increasingly high risks of flooding. Eco-friendly urban planning and landscape architecture provides a solution in the new architectural context. Stormwater Management introduces key techniques and skills in the water resilient urban design, illustrated with recently completed projects all around the world. In a sponge city, landscape architecture is perceived as a kind of infrastructure that is able to bring to us a low-carbon, smart, eco-firendly lifestyle.

Cities and towns with the contemporary high density patterns of development are suffering increasingly high risks of flooding. Eco-friendly urban planning and landscape architecture provides a solution in the new architectural context. Stormwater Management introduces key techniques and skills in the water resilient urban design, illustrated with recently completed projects all around the world. In a sponge city, landscape architecture is perceived as a kind of infrastructure that is able to bring to us a low-carbon, smart, eco-firendly lifestyle.