Transforming With Water

A wide range of thoughts and experiences on a highly timely theme, designing with water. It provides a global impression of the issues that currently challenges the field and the solutions that are being sought, from contributors from all over the world. Without water there is no mankind, and without water landscape does not evolve. For ages man has lived together with water that has supported the landscapes of civilisation. Recently, changing weather conditions pose an urgent and demanding task to humankind all over the world. The great Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, melting glaciers, and the extreme drought in many parts of the world show the dramatic forces of water, whether we get too much or too little. Agricultural systems will have to be adapted, our leisure behaviour will change with popular holiday destinations becoming too wet, too hot and dry, or lacking needed snow. Other areas perhaps will prosper from an improving climate. Urban structures will have to be rethought in order to cope with extreme peaks in precipitation, or to use scarce fresh water through smart retention planning for surface and subsoil water. Water is transforming the landscape and it will continue to do so. Landscape architects can try to better understand the transforming power of water This book will be of interest to Landscape and Gardening Professionals involved in: - Architectural Design; Site Planning ; - Housing Estate Development; - Environmental Restoration; - City, Town and Urban Planning; - Urban Design; - Park Planning; - Recreation Planning; - Regional Planning; - Historic Preservation