Water Sensitive Urban Design

Paul Simkins, Arup

Northampton Summer School07.07.2014

paul.simkins@arup.com@paulsimkins

Drivers – Resilience and Adaptation

Source City Resilience Framework, Report Produced by Arup with the Rockefeller Foundation

Drivers – Urban Water

Water + other systems

Water

Source World Economic Forum

World Economic Forum 2014 Risks

Source CIRIA Report RP976 , Creating Water Sensitive Places – diagram adapted from Brown et al 2008 (For full reference refer to CIRIA Report Rp976, opposite, p106)

Evolution towards a water sensitive city…in the UK…

Melbourne Main Sewer OutfallCIRIA Water Sensitive Urban Design – UK Ideas Book

Melbourne Main Sewer OutfallCIRIA Water Sensitive Urban Design Ideas Book

Pause

By Ramsthal, August [CC-BY-SA-2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons

(c) Fintastique | Dreamstime

(c) Ron Chapple | Dreamstime

Shift

Potential actors lots

Potential actors lots

Design with Water

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River Nene Integrated Catchment Pilot UK

Image courtesy River Nene Regional Park. For more information go to www.rnrp.org.

Design with Water

CC images from Flicker.com taken by RiNux(bottm right) and Christoper Penn (top right)

Chenggyecheon Stream Restoration, Seoul

London 2012 Olympic Park Water Strategy

London 2012 Olympic Park Water Strategy

Beam Parklands, Dagenham, UK

Beam Parklands, Dagenham, UK

Greener Grangetown, Cardiff UK

Greener Grangetown, Cardiff UK

Greener Grangetown, Cardiff UK

Melbourne Main Sewer Outfall

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Melbourne Main Sewer Outfall

Melbourne Main Sewer Outfall

Melbourne Main Sewer Outfall

Northstowe New Town, Cambridgeshire

WReN – Water Re-use Networks

SUPPLIERS

USERS

WReN – Water Re-use Networks

SCENARIO 1 SCENARIO 2

Qianhai Special Economic Zone – Bay Pilot Projects, Shenzen, China

Humber Enterprise Zone & Hedon Navigation Restoration

Plus Pool, New York, Design with Family New York and PlayLab

Melbourne Main Sewer Outfall

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Bradford City Park

Melbourne Main Sewer Outfall

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Bradford City Park

Thank you

paul.simkins@arup.com@paulsimkins