Sponge City：Overview of the 2015 International Low Impact Development Conference
Abstract："Sponge City", a recent low impact development initiative in China, is transforming China's governmental decision-making process and relevant professions' practices on stormwater and the built environment as a whole. The government, professionals and academia in China are responding to such initiative like a sponge in absorbing as much knowledge, skills and best practices from all over the world to advance its green and grey infrastructure in cities. This enthusiastic movement, i.e., sponge city, leads to the current overview of a recent conference with a theme that is especially fitting: the 2015 International Low Impact Development (LID) Conference. The purpose of the paper is to introduce the breadth and depth of the presentations and pre-conference workshops of the LID Conference as an attempt to trigger additional research and implementation ideas that are unique to China and avoid reinventing the wheels that are already developed and implemented.
Keywords：green infrastructurepolicysoilstormwater management
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 8-13 )