Building Sponge City: Examples of Landscape Architecture Curriculum on Stormwater Management in the UniteD States

Abstract

Sponge City is a newly initiated design ideology in China. It advocates using Low Impact Development (LID) techniques to retain and treat stormwater runoff on site. The design ideology emerges at an opportune time when the demand for solutions to increasingly severe urban flooding issues in China is high. Since its inception, Sponge City has been attracting growing attention in both industrial and academic sectors. In this paper, we studied 65 landscape architecture curricula of the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board (LAAB) accredited programs in the United States to discuss how stormwater management training in landscape architecture education can help build Sponge Cities in China.

Keywords

Low Impact Development / Sustainable Stormwater Management / Education / Curriculum / Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board

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2016 Higher Education Press