[Southern California Permaculture] (C)urban Ecology/How to use Curbs & Water Run off effectively in Urban Environment

Tue Feb 7 09:43:36 PST 2017

The Buckminster Fuller Challenge is so inspiring!
https://www.bfi.org/challenge

Check out the (C)urbanization project a group from Oakland did a few years
back for the Buckminster Challenge.  Can you imagine if all cities
implemented enlightened designs like this?
http://www.thecommonstudio.com/curban/.  

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The increasing contamination of the earth's water has emerged as one of the
greatest planetary challenges of the 21st century.   Rethinking the ways
cities deal with urban drainage is a significant part of this challenge.  

What we Discovered:

Despite an extensive and fascinating history of adapting to the functional
and health-related concerns of cities, the familiar infrastructures of the
urban street have remained largely unchallenged and unchanged since the
industrial revolution.  We identified the typical urban street as both the
source of the problem as well as the site of the potential solution. Rather
than merely diverting and transporting wastewater, how might the typical
street gutter be re-imagined a site for bio-remediation?

What we Did:

(C)urban Ecology is a modular micro-remediation infrastructure that
integrates seamlessly within our existing streets, supplanting the mundane
utilitarian curb-and-gutter system to offer new levels of amenity. A
versatile and performative design provides opportunities for water
permeation and street vegetation, while sequestering small scale debris
before it reaches the larger scales of the urban watershed.

What Else:

Semi Finalist, Buckminster Fuller Challenge <http://bfi.org/challenge>
(2008)

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P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie at sbpermaculture.org
http://www.sbpermaculture.org <http://www.sbpermaculture.org/> 

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