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This beautifully illustrated, comprehensive guide explains how to design creative, yet practical, landscapes that treat onsite stormwater management as an opportunity to enhance site design. Artful Rainwater Design is a must-have resource for landscape architects, urban designers, civil engineers, and architects looking to create landscapes that celebrate rain for the life-giving resource it is—and contribute to more sustainable, healthy, and even fun, built environments.

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9781610912662

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Building on a decade of research, travel, and development, Echols and Pennypacker explain the design of every stage of rainwater's path through crowded cities. Their Artful Design paradigm restores the urban water environment, and articulates the places where people live, making them active parts of their lives. --Bruce K. Ferguson Creator of Ferguson's Portal, former Director of the School of Environmental Design, U. of Georgia

In redefining the relationship between 'problem' and 'amenity, ' the authors of <i>Artful Rainwater Design</i> have produced a capacious catalog of exemplars for harnessing excess runoff. Well organized, documented, and illustrated, this trove of techniques demonstrates how landscape designers and engineers can transform public perception and thus policy goals for urban stormwater management. --M. Elen Deming Professor and Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois

We depend on water for our very existence, a fact which has thrust water management into the front line of public policy. Unfortunately, a common result has been the proliferation of single-purpose, utilitarian solutions. Echols and Pennypacker present compelling alternatives to ugly stormwater management facilities through artful, landscape-based rainwater interventions and illustrate how we can better interact with water through creative design. --Frederick Steiner Dean and Henry M. Rockwell Chair in Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin

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Dr. Stuart Echols is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Pennsylvania State University where he teaches courses in stormwater management, urban design, land development, environmental site construction methods, design research methods, land-use assessment, and design implementation. He is a registered landscape architect and has practiced in Texas, Florida, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Eliza Pennypacker has been a faculty member in Pennsylvania State University's Department of Landscape Architecture since 1982. She has taught a wide range of courses, including the History of Landscape Architecture, First-Year Seminar, and all levels of design studio. Professor Pennypacker's creative work has also included the winning entry to the national design competition for a Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and design and curation of an award-winning, travelling interpretive exhibition and exhibition catalogue titled Abstracting the Landscape: the Artistry of Landscape Architect A. E. Bye.

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