Clean Urbanism vs. Dirty Design: Appropriating Water Infrastructure Systems as Urban Water Landscapes
Abstract：Folowing the approach of "Clean Urbanism", architects, urban designers landscape architects usualy assume that the engineering chalenges related to the provision and disposal of water need to be solved in a technical and preferably invisible way. This has disconnected the land-use from the logics of the watershed and has led to increasing floods, droughts and water pollution. "Dirty Design" on the other hand means that architects, urban designers landscape architects need to get actively involved in the design of modern water infrastructure systems as a basis for shaping urban form and meeting broader human, ecological and aesthetic objectives. By presenting two projects from China and Europe, this paper discusses how to integrate the performance of natural processes and spatial design strategies, linking engineering, ecological and urban design thinking.
Keywords：water infrastructurewaste water purificationrain water managementlandscape designChangdeRotterdam
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( 72-77 )