Abstract
Wuhan city in Hubei Province is endowed with unique natural water resources and numerous lakes. It has a good framework of natural “green sponge”, which provides a broad space for stormwater regulation and storage. However, with the increase of infrastructure construction in Wuhan, many lakes have been buried and the city is becoming a “hard shell city” made of steel and cement. This article combines the natural landform of Wuhan and the pocket park system theory to make an organic combination of the ongoing urban infrastructure construction and the restorative construction of the municipal water supply system in Wuhan, so as to make an exploratory research for the early construction of Wuhan into a sponge city.
Highlights
Along with the speeding up of urbanization, the city's impervious area gradually increases, the city is turning into concrete built in "city scale", the rain cannot get effective discharge or use
In January 2015, the government launched a pilot program to construct sponge urban cities and there were 16 cities in it including Wuhan. In foreign countries such as the United States, Japan, Australia and other countries in Europe, they studied the practices of urban water resource utilization management much early
They put forward "BMPs (Best Management Practices) water resources comprehensive management", "Low impact Development (LID) low impact development technology", "WSUD water sensitive urban design" concepts which obtained the very good applications in urban plannings and designs, and those can provide a good reference for our country
Summary
Along with the speeding up of urbanization, the city's impervious area gradually increases, the city is turning into concrete built in "city scale", the rain cannot get effective discharge or use. In January 2015, the government launched a pilot program to construct sponge urban cities and there were 16 cities in it including Wuhan In foreign countries such as the United States, Japan, Australia and other countries in Europe, they studied the practices of urban water resource utilization management much early. They put forward "BMPs (Best Management Practices) water resources comprehensive management", "LID low impact development technology", "WSUD water sensitive urban design" concepts which obtained the very good applications in urban plannings and designs, and those can provide a good reference for our country. In urban development and land use, it is devoted to the construction of rainwater storage and infiltration facilities, low-lying land, constructed wetland and other infrastructure by taking advantage of the functions of natural environment such as prevention of vegetation and water quality purification
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