Sponge Cities: Emerging Approaches, Challenges and Opportunities

• Main Author: Dafang Fu (Ed.) (auth)
• Other Authors: Chris Zevenbergen (Ed.) (auth), Assela Pathirana (Ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: Environmental economics; Eco-restoration; Sponge City; Low Impact Development; Stormwater Management; Urban Flooding; Water Sensitive City; Urban Water Cycle; Sustainable Drainage Systems; Resilience
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Primarily as a response to increasing flood, impacts, the Chinese Central Government launched a program to implement the Sponge City Concept in selected pilot cities across China in 2013. As a result, the Sponge City Concept is gaining ground and becoming more and more accepted by city governments....