Print Email Facebook Twitter Urban ecology in Houston: Creating a soft natural border between the existing urban patterns to solve flood risk, while restoring the ecosystems. Title Urban ecology in Houston: Creating a soft natural border between the existing urban patterns to solve flood risk, while restoring the ecosystems. Author Brakel, S.F. Contributor Meyer, H. (mentor) Nijhuis, S. (mentor) Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department Urbanism Programme Delta Interventions Date 2015-12-01 Abstract Because of its central location, the Buffalo Bayou is a strategic site for interventions. Reducing flood risk can be done by absorbing rainfall and storm surge flooding into the urban fabric around the Bayou. Soft borders from the Buffalo Bayou should be extended into the urban fabric and vice versa to strengthen the interactions and the features of the “Bayou City”, but also simultaneously restoring the ecosystems. This will create a more sustainable and healthier environment for both humans and wildlife. Houston consists out of different layers (soil, water system, green system, infrastructure and urban fabric) each with their own function and characteristics. The strategy is to merge the different layers together and filling the gaps, by introducing a greenway around the Bayous and a green blue system applied on the existing secondary and tertiary infrastructure. This will bind the now isolated green systems and new greenways with each other to provide movement for people, animals and vegetation. Subject Houstonfragmentationecosystemsgreen blue network strategygreenways To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8a90c7bc-93c9-4d87-9d21-2725d49ac867 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2015 Brakel, S.F. Files PDF P5__Presentation_5.pdf 133.65 MB PDF P5_Poster.pdf 43.69 MB PDF P5_Report_.pdf 113.01 MB PDF P2_Presentation_.pdf 98.09 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:8a90c7bc-93c9-4d87-9d21-2725d49ac867/datastream/OBJ3/view