Reconsideration of Current Sponge City Development Practice: A Case Study of Xiamen
As the sponge city construction has attracted the great attention from the national and municipal governments,various management departments,planning and design units are laden with great responsibilities and facing several contradictions and barriers in the process of implementing.Some exist objectively in the special development phase of Xiamen,some come from the lack of technical support and the imperfect management system.New engineering thinking and practice need technical standards and management system to guarantee the controllable management of construction process,and this sys tem and practice are in the process of dynamic coordination.The following measures should be taken:learning from the successful experience at home and abroad,following the natural background indexes,using engineering and non-engineering measures according to the conditions,balancing the demand and contradiction between the urban construction and the water environment,optimizing and adjusting urban water systems.Urban redesign is not only for seeking survival in the current waterlogging,but also for the better sustainable development.At present,there are fundamental problems associated with sponge urban construction such as unclear goal,mechanical application of control indicators.In order to promote the standardized construction of sponge cities,Xiamen experience in sponge city construction was selected to elaborate the above problems for reference.
sponge city constructionurban water systemdrainage and waterlogging prevention