{"id":4683,"date":"2013-07-03T19:24:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T19:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blogs\/water-sensitive-cities-2\/"},"modified":"2017-07-25T10:24:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T14:24:15","slug":"water-sensitive-cities-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/water-sensitive-cities-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Water sensitive cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Water sensitive urban design at the Southport Broadwater Parklands, Australia. \u00a9AECOM photo by David Lloyd.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Tony Wong\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6KFqEmcLXk8&amp;feature=player_embedded\">TED X presentation<\/a> at Canberra, Australia in April, &#8220;Envisioning a Water Sensitive Future for our Cities and Towns,&#8221; describes approaches for integrating \u00a0the built and natural environment by focusing on water.\u00a0 By incorporating natural hydrologic processes as a design template for city infrastructure he argues that we can create more resilient, restorative, and productive cities.<\/p>\n<p>Tony highlights common urban inefficiencies such as the amount of rainwater that lands on cities and is quickly channeled out through gray infrastructure in patterns that damage surrounding watersheds, despite the fact that these cities are also struggling with water supply shortages.\u00a0 Wasted water is another major challenge and opportunity.\u00a0Using waste water to irrigate city landscapes, support urban agriculture, and even cool cities from climate change are some other exciting opportunities that many\u00a0cities are beginning to explore not only in Australia but around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Isaac Brown was formerly\u00a0an urban designer and ecologist with AECOM\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/aecom.com\/designplanning\">Design + Planning<\/a> practice in Orange, California. This information was updated Nov. 5, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water sensitive urban design at the Southport Broadwater Parklands, Australia. \u00a9AECOM photo by David Lloyd. Professor Tony Wong\u2019s TED X presentation at Canberra, Australia in April, &#8220;Envisioning a Water Sensitive Future for our Cities and Towns,&#8221; describes approaches for integrating \u00a0the built and natural environment by focusing on water.\u00a0 By incorporating natural hydrologic processes as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":4684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[20,191,243,218,242,108],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resilience","tag-climate-change","tag-connected-cities","tag-ecology","tag-green-infrastructure","tag-urban-agriculture","tag-water"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4683"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}