Politics Of Urban Runoff: Nature, Technology, And The Sustainable City

In the readings, “Politics of Urban Runoff: Nature, Technology, and the Sustainable City” by Andrew Karvonen and “Design with Nature” by Ian McHarg, both talked about the problems faced with water. “Politics of Urban Runoff: Nature, Technology, and the Sustainable City” discussed on the cause of serious and confounding problems from rain including flooding, erosion, landslides, and water pollution and “Design with Nature” discussed on how building highway affects the natural surrounding and people around. The highway is considered a large scale public investment, which will affect the economy, the way of life, health and visual experience of the community. Similarly, reorienting stormwater flows on transportation networks and building rooftops from predominantly vertical to horizontal pathways affects people in the community as well. The evolution of practice from urban drainage to stormwater management is related with the

His approach to urban runoff has been integrated and adapted by landscape practitioners such as William Wenk, Andropogon, Murase Associates, and Herbert Drieseitl to address both ecological and social flows in urban stormwater projects such as Shop Creek in Denver, Colorado; the Water Pollution Control Laboratory in Portland, Oregon; and Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany. Like Village Homes, these projects view cities as relational accomplishment and suggest how the connections between urban residents and their material surroundings can be configured differently. It is more important to think for the benefits of a bigger pictures. Also, rather than attempting to improve regular stormwater management, a relational perspective requires a basic reconsideration of the connection between humans and their