Recent Waterscapes : : Planning, Building and Designing with Water /

Recent Waterscapes : : Planning, Building and Designing with Water / / ed. by Herbert Dreiseitl, Dieter Grau.

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After decades of being banished from residential areas, water is now becoming an increasingly significant feature in urban design. Whether it is the integration of natural water courses into the built environment, rainwater management, the incorporation of water elements in urban areas for climatic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Architecture, Design and Arts 2000 - 2014
MitwirkendeR:
Chye, Khoo Teng,
Dreiseitl, Herbert,
Edel, Alexander,
Geiger, Wolfgang F.,
Grau, Dieter,
Hauber, Gerhard,
Santner, Zari,
Schwenk, Wolfram,
HerausgeberIn:
Dreiseitl, Herbert,
Grau, Dieter,
Place / Publishing House:Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2012]
©2013
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:3rd, rev. and expanded ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (175 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Water – spirit of change
  • URBAN PLAZAS
  • Civic Square, Seattle
  • Water system in Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz
  • Town hall square, Hattersheim
  • New town square in Gummersbach
  • ‘Water-traces’ in Hannoversch Münden
  • Heiner-Metzger Plaza, Neu-Ulm
  • Exemplary water management at DWR Headquarters, Amsterdam
  • Water management for a research centre near London
  • Center of Excellence, Sindelfingen
  • Light and water installation Breiteweg, Barleben
  • Public participation
  • URBAN PARKS
  • Tanner Springs Park, Portland
  • Toppilansaari Park in Oulu
  • Queens Botanical Garden, New York
  • Rainwater retention on the Kronsberg in Hanover
  • Scharnhauser Park in Ostfildern
  • Green roof for Chicago City Hall
  • Cities moving toward sustainability
  • MASTER PLANNING
  • Central watershed and Bishan Park, Singapore
  • Transformation of a city district, Taipei
  • Conversion of Fornebu Airport, Oslo
  • Dubai Business Park
  • Restoration of Emscher River, Ruhr Valley
  • Think global, act local
  • RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS
  • Arkadien housing estates near Stuttgart
  • Rainwater management in Coffee Creek, Indiana
  • Solar City, Linz
  • Neighbourhood community, Tianjin
  • Housing estate in Echallens near Lausanne
  • Sewage treatment plant at the Wörme farm community in Handeloh
  • RIVER RESTORATION
  • Daylighting of Alna River in Hølaløkka, Oslo
  • Scheme for the banks of the Volme, Hagen
  • Rainwater for the bears in Zurich zoo
  • Three Rivers Master Plan, Pittsburgh
  • Water as an open system
  • INTERIOR DESIGN
  • Interior courtyard of an old people’s home in Stuttgart
  • The climate in the Nuremberg Prisma
  • ART AND FOUNTAINS
  • Fountain sculpture in Immenstaad
  • Festival des Jardins, Chaumont-sur-Loire
  • Open space for a residential development in Ittigen, Berne
  • Sonnenhausen estate in Glonn
  • Water playground in Pforzheim
  • Water phenomena in the Gelsenkirchen cooling tower
  • From the idea to the finished object
  • Technical data
  • The authors
  • Illustration credits
  • Backmatter

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