Working Water: Design Beyond the Garden Wall

Working Water demonstrates better approaches of managing urban water resources in ways that support more efficient water use, clean urban runoff, support natural systems, and enhance the vitality and livability of our cities.

Exploring the potentials of urban water resources is an important part of Wenk Associates' practice, and the focus of this book.

Working Water has evolved as a reflection on over thirty-five years of the firm's professional work and is organized in three parts. The first part is a teaching tool for students and the interested public. The second part is a monograph describing selected projects of the firm and their value as civic and natural resources in addition to their essential function of stormwater control. The third part is a resource manual describing lessons learned after decades of observing project successes and failures and ways to overcome legal, financial, and institutional barriers to implementing green infrastructure at a system scale.

Author: Bill Wenk
Publisher: Oro Editions
Published: 12/21/2021
Pages: 180
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.30lbs
Size: 11.18h x 9.21w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9781943532360

About the Author
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Bill
Wenk is founder of Wenk Associates, Inc., a Denver-based landscape architectural
firm. For over 40 years, Bill has been influential in the restoration and
redevelopment of urban river and waterfronts, the implementation of green
infrastructure systems, and the design of public parks and open spaces. He is
recognized nationally for utilizing stormwater as a resource.

Bill's extensive portfolio includes a master plan
for the reclamation of the 32-mile Los Angeles River corridor in California;
green infrastructure planning and implementation for the redevelopment of
abandoned railyards, and restoration of the Menomonee River in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin; and transformation of the South Platte River Valley in the heart of
Denver into a mosaic of parks, open spaces, and in-fill development. All
projects focus on site and district-scale infrastructure systems that
incorporate stormwater as a multi-benefit resource.



Bill
lectures frequently at universities and conferences across the nation on the
integration of stormwater systems and public space as a component of green
infrastructure. He served on a National Science Foundation committee assembled
to recommend revisions to Federal rules and regulations governing nonpoint
source stormwater pollution. He has served as a visiting professor at several
universities. Bill holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University
of Oregon and a Bachelor of Science, Landscape Architecture from Michigan State
University and is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape
Architects.