Urban Street Stormwater Guide

Author : National Association of City Transportation Officials
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610918121

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Urban Street Stormwater Guide by National Association of City Transportation Officials Pdf

The Urban Street Stormwater Guide begins from the principle that street design can support--or degrade--the urban area's overall environmental health. By incorporating Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) into the right-of-way, cities can manage stormwater and reap the public health, environmental, and aesthetic benefits of street trees, planters, and greenery in the public realm. Building on the successful NACTO urban street guides, the Urban Street Stormwater Guide provides the best practices for the design of GSI along transportation corridors. The state-of-the-art solutions in this guide will assist urban planners and designers, transportation engineers, city officials, ecologists, public works officials, and others interested in the role of the built urban landscape in protecting the climate, water quality, and natural environment.

Author : National Association of City Transportation Officials
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1610914945

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Urban Street Design Guide by National Association of City Transportation Officials Pdf

The NACTO Urban Street Design Guide shows how streets of every size can be reimagined and reoriented to prioritize safe driving and transit, biking, walking, and public activity. Unlike older, more conservative engineering manuals, this design guide emphasizes the core principle that urban streets are public places and have a larger role to play in communities than solely being conduits for traffic. The well-illustrated guide offers blueprints of street design from multiple perspectives, from the bird’s eye view to granular details. Case studies from around the country clearly show how to implement best practices, as well as provide guidance for customizing design applications to a city’s unique needs. Urban Street Design Guide outlines five goals and tenets of world-class street design: • Streets are public spaces. Streets play a much larger role in the public life of cities and communities than just thoroughfares for traffic. • Great streets are great for business. Well-designed streets generate higher revenues for businesses and higher values for homeowners. • Design for safety. Traffic engineers can and should design streets where people walking, parking, shopping, bicycling, working, and driving can cross paths safely. • Streets can be changed. Transportation engineers can work flexibly within the building envelope of a street. Many city streets were created in a different era and need to be reconfigured to meet new needs. • Act now! Implement projects quickly using temporary materials to help inform public decision making. Elaborating on these fundamental principles, the guide offers substantive direction for cities seeking to improve street design to create more inclusive, multi-modal urban environments. It is an exceptional resource for redesigning streets to serve the needs of 21st century cities, whose residents and visitors demand a variety of transportation options, safer streets, and vibrant community life.

Author : Global Designing Cities Initiative,National Association of City Transportation Officials
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610917018

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Global Street Design Guide by Global Designing Cities Initiative,National Association of City Transportation Officials Pdf

The Global Street Design Guide is a timely resource that sets a global baseline for designing streets and public spaces and redefines the role of streets in a rapidly urbanizing world. The guide will broaden how to measure the success of urban streets to include: access, safety, mobility for all users, environmental quality, economic benefit, public health, and overall quality of life. The first-ever worldwide standards for designing city streets and prioritizing safety, pedestrians, transit, and sustainable mobility are presented in the guide. Participating experts from global cities have helped to develop the principles that organize the guide. The Global Street Design Guide builds off the successful tools and tactics defined in NACTO's Urban Street Design Guide and Urban Bikeway Design Guide while addressing a variety of street typologies and design elements found in various contexts around the world.

Author : National Association of City Transportation Officials
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610915656

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Urban Bikeway Design Guide, Second Edition by National Association of City Transportation Officials Pdf

NACTO's Urban Bikeway Design Guide quickly emerged as the preeminent resource for designing safe, protected bikeways in cities across the United States. It has been completely re-designed with an even more accessible layout. The Guide offers updated graphic profiles for all of its bicycle facilities, a subsection on bicycle boulevard planning and design, and a survey of materials used for green color in bikeways. The Guide continues to build upon the fast-changing state of the practice at the local level. It responds to and accelerates innovative street design and practice around the nation.

Author : National Association of City Transportation Officials
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610917476

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Transit Street Design Guide by National Association of City Transportation Officials Pdf

"The Transit Street Design Guide sets a new vision for how cities can harness the immense potential of transit to create active and efficient streets in neighborhoods and downtowns alike. Building on the Urban Street Design Guide and Urban Bikeway Design Guide, the Transit Street Design Guide details how reliable public transportation depends on a commitment to transit at every level of design. Developed through a new peer network of NACTO members and transit agency partners, the Guide provides street transportation departments, transit operating agencies, leaders, and practitioners with the tools to actively prioritize transit on the street."--Site Web de NACTO.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Water Science and Technology Board,Committee on Reducing Stormwater Discharge Contributions to Water Pollution
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780309125390

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Urban Stormwater Management in the United States by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Water Science and Technology Board,Committee on Reducing Stormwater Discharge Contributions to Water Pollution Pdf

The rapid conversion of land to urban and suburban areas has profoundly altered how water flows during and following storm events, putting higher volumes of water and more pollutants into the nation's rivers, lakes, and estuaries. These changes have degraded water quality and habitat in virtually every urban stream system. The Clean Water Act regulatory framework for addressing sewage and industrial wastes is not well suited to the more difficult problem of stormwater discharges. This book calls for an entirely new permitting structure that would put authority and accountability for stormwater discharges at the municipal level. A number of additional actions, such as conserving natural areas, reducing hard surface cover (e.g., roads and parking lots), and retrofitting urban areas with features that hold and treat stormwater, are recommended.

Author : Stuart Echols,Eliza Pennypacker
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610912662

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Artful Rainwater Design by Stuart Echols,Eliza Pennypacker Pdf

Artful Rainwater Design has three main parts: first, the book outlines five amenity-focused goals that might be highlighted in a project: education, recreation, safety, public relations, and aesthetic appeal. Next, it focuses on techniques for ecologically sustainable stormwater management that complement the amenity goals. Finally, it features diverse case studies that show how designers around the country are implementing principles of artful rainwater design.

Author : Scott Slaney
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1864707070

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Stormwater Management for Sustainable Urban Environments by Scott Slaney Pdf

As urbanisation progresses, urban environments have been confronted with many challenges, such as air pollution and stormwater disaster. The latter has been especially damaging in recent years, as vulnerable places suffer from inundating onslaughts of surface run-off following hurricanes and heavy rainfall. This book analyses the implementation of stormwater management practices. It presents the systematic theory behind these methods, and provides multiple case studies showing how drainage development can create a sustainable urban environment. SELLING POINTS: * Analyses methods of stormwater management * Suggests how these methods might be effectively applied 400 colour

Author : Melbourne Water
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780643090927

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WSUD Engineering Procedures by Melbourne Water Pdf

Managing the urban water cycle needs to be underpinned by key sustainability principles of water consumption, water recycling, waste minimisation and environmental protection. The integration of urban water cycle management with urban planning and design is known as Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD). WSUD Engineering Procedures: Stormwater is designed to give practical engineering solutions to all those who need to implement WSUD guidelines.

Author : Victorian Stormwater Committee,
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780643102859

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Urban Stormwater by Victorian Stormwater Committee, Pdf

The intense concentration of human activity in urban areas leads to changes in both the quantity and quality of runoff that eventually reaches our streams, lakes, wetlands, estuaries and coasts. The increasing use of impervious surfaces designed to provide smooth and direct pathways for stormwater run-off, has led to greater runoff volumes and flow velocities in urban waterways. Unmanaged, these changes in the quantity and quality of stormwater can result in considerable damage to the environment. Improved environmental performance is needed to ensure that the environmental values and beneficial uses of receiving waters are sustained or enhanced. Urban Stormwater - Best-Practice Environmental Management Guidelines resulted from a collaboration between State government agencies, local government and leading research institutions. The guidelines have been designed to meet the needs of people involved in the planning, design or management of urban land uses or stormwater drainage systems. They provide guidance in ten key areas: *Environmental performance objectives *Stormwater management planning *Land use planning *Water sensitive urban design *Construction site management *Business surveys *Education and awareness *Enforcement *Structural treatment measures *Flow management Engineers and planners within local government, along with consultants to the development industry, should find the guidelines especially useful. Government agencies should also find them helpful in assessing the performance of stormwater managers. While developed specifically for application in Victoria, Australia, the information will be of value to stormwater managers everywhere.

Author : A. Osman Akan,Robert J. Houghtalen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0471431583

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Urban Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Stormwater Quality by A. Osman Akan,Robert J. Houghtalen Pdf

A practical introduction on today's challenge of controlling and managing the water resources used by and affected by cities and urbanized communities. The book offers an integrated engineering approach, covering the spectrum of urban watershed management, urban hydraulic systems, and overall stormwater management. Each chapter concludes with helpful problems. Solutions Manual available to qualified professors and instructors upon request. Introduces the reader to two popular, non-proprietary computer-modeling pro-grams: HEC-HMS (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) and SWMM (U.S EPA).

Author : National Association of City Transportation Officials,Global Designing Cities Initiative
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Streets
ISBN : 1642830712

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Designing Streets for Kids by National Association of City Transportation Officials,Global Designing Cities Initiative Pdf

Building on the success of their Global Street Design Guide, the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)-Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI) Streets for Kids program has developed child-focused design guidance to inspire leaders, inform practitioners, and empower communities around the world to consider their city from the eyes of a child. The guidance in Designing Streets for Kids captures international best practices, strategies, programs, and policies that cities around the world have used to design streets and public spaces that are safe and appealing to children from their earliest days. The guidance also highlights tactics for engaging children in the design process, an often-overlooked approach that can dramatically transform how streets are designed and used.

Author : Kim A. Stephens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:927203376

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Stormwater Planning by Kim A. Stephens Pdf

Author : Cynthia Girling,Ronald Kellett
Publisher : Shearwater Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39076002551658

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Skinny Streets and Green Neighborhoods by Cynthia Girling,Ronald Kellett Pdf

"Skinny Streets and Green Neighborhoods weaves together the most innovative thinking in urban planning and urban ecology. Drawing from eighteen case studies, these green neighborhoods are the best examples of how the natural environment can play an integral role in neighborhoods." "This book provides proven methods to solve complex problems such as how to make communities accessible and walkable while better integrating natural and urban landscapes. In these communities, wooded areas, meandering streams, and wetlands are planned for and planted to clean the air and teh water, while skinnier streets and accessible paths connect to a transportation network that provides services close to home."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Thomas W. Liptan
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781604694864

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Sustainable Stormwater Management by Thomas W. Liptan Pdf

An essential addition to the landscape design library Nature devises ingenious systems for the management and delivery of water in all its phases. No additional infrastructure is required—the water systems are in place, naturally. But once the natural environment has been disrupted by human development, stormwater becomes an issue that requires intervention and ongoing management. Sustainable Stormwater Management, by leading expert Tom Liptan, provides landscape students and professionals with a green approach to landscape design. The hardworking book includes comprehensive information on how to design, install, and maintain a landscape for sustainable stormwater management. It addresses stormwater in the urban environment, relevant environmental and economic policies, and shares case studies of exemplary projects from around the world.