Turning Degraded Sites into Rich and Productive Land — An Exploration on Urban Water Ecosys tem Improvement

Abstract

One of the most important topics in the design industry nowadays centers on the integration of water management, ecology and landscape in design proposals in order to improve water quality, reconstruct habitats, restore a healthy and natural water ecosystem, and to achieve a sustainably long-run landscape performance through using ecological techniques. Beijing ZEHO Waterfront City Planning and Design Institute used the recently completed Shengxi Lake Wetland Park project in Xiaoyi as a case study, sharing their innovative technical measures, cross-disciplinary thinking, and performance evaluation methods. This project transformed an area suffering from deterioration of water quality, deposition of sediment, and a severely damaged ecological environment into a wetland park full of vitality, through the integration of hydrodynamic modeling, wetlands purification, habitat restoration, and stormwater management.

Keywords

Wetland / Settling Basin / Ecological Restoration / Water Quality Improvement / Landscape Performance

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2014 Higher Education Press