Water index : design strategies for drough, flooding and contamination / editor, Seth McDowell, Assistant Professor in Architecture.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

A hydrological tragedy in three acts : introduction / Seth McDowell -- People and the rising sea / Orrin Pilkey and Rob Young -- Catastrophe / Tracy Metz -- The Delta works project / Benjamin Gregory -- The spectacle of water and machine : the ideologies at work in the Bonnet Carre Spillway openings of 1937 and 2011 / Travis K. Bost -- Hydropolis / Marion Ottman, Margaux Leycuras and Anne-Hina Mallette -- Governors Island Park / West 8 and Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects -- Connections on uncertain ground / Benjamin Gregory and Ed Ford -- Aranzadi Park / Aldayjover Architecture and Landscape -- Swamp thing : Smart grid, smarter water management in New Orleans / Isaac Cohen, Kate Hayes, and Jorg Sieweke -- Watersquare Benthemplein / De Urbanisten -- The bacteriological city and its discontents / Matthew Gandy -- Bringing the serpent's tail into the serpent's mouth : Edwin Chadwick and the 'sanitary idea' in England / Martin V. Melosi -- Deepwater Horizon oil spill / Benjamin Gregory -- Whitney water purification facility + park / Steven Holl Architects and Michael Van Valkenburgh and Associates -- Seeping boundaries : informal infrastructures of dirt., demolition, and sewage in the West Bank / Suzanne Harris-Brandts -- Dendritic zoning : establishing a new urban gradient in the Garden State / Kimberly Garza -- A green sponge for a water-resilient city : Qunli Stormwater Park / Turenscape -- Shanghai Houtan Park : landscape as a living system / Turenscape -- Vintondale Reclamation Park / D.I.R.T.. Studio -- Parallel networks / Op.N (Ali Fard and Ghazal Jafari) -- Water core home / Dan Williamson, David Karle, and Sarah Thomas Karle -- Detoxi-city / Zuhal Kol, Rodney Bell, and Julia Gamolina -- The urban spring : formalizing the water system of Los Angeles / William Morrish -- Reconstructing the void : Owens Lake / Barry Lehrman -- Draining the oasis / Benjamin Gregory -- Sea tree / Waterstudio -- Winton Wetland restoration / Taylor Cullity Lethlean -- Lima beyond the park / Antje Stokman, Bernd Eisenberg, Eva Nemcova, and Rossana Poblet -- Wash : urban hydrological networks for resilient cultural ecologies / Aja Bulla-Richards -- Immaterial water / Izaskun Gonzalez Barredo and Oriol Valls Guinovart.

"A book that highlights critical design projects from around the world those radically engage the fragile issues of drought, flooding, and contamination, revealing opportunistic, adaptive design strategies in response to the mounting global crisis.
In the wake of an escalating global crisis with water, Water Index is the first critical inventory and analysis of innovative architecture, landscape architecture and design solutions to address the rising, disappearing, and contamination of water. As an ecological disaster complex ferments in contemporary architectural discourse, design competition briefs, conference topics and journal themes optimistically call for designers to reconcile or reimagine the relationship between water, architecture and city. Anxiety is elevated by the onslaught of extreme weather in the form of super-storms, hurricanes, tsunamis, landslides, floods, and droughts whose frequencies and intensities continue to increase. Couple the ever-present exposure to disaster with scientific data that suggests a future characterized by climate change and population growth, and then we have the ingredients for a full-fledged paranoia: the perfect motivation for absurd, expansive and radical building projects. Water Index, examines three hydrological tragedies (flood, contamination, and drought) through strategies that offer methods for controlling, escaping, or adapting to the vital natural resource. Water Index is a collective vision of the future that provides solutions for every continent and spans the disciplines of urban design, landscape architecture and architecture. The book works to create an enduring manual and manifesto for water development and design in the twenty-first century and to acknowledge crisis-initiated design as an important trajectory for architectural discourse. Water Index highlights a moment when designers have linked formal concerns with social, ecological and political agendas offering solutions for expanding global problems."-- Provided by publisher.

E-book. Barcelona, SP. Actar Publishers. 2017. EPUB file.