06/04/2024: LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR, Sponge Cities - Designed to Flood - Encore Presentation, Tuesday, June 4, 2024, 11am-1pm Eastern

This is a live, repeat presentation of a webinar that was originally offered on 02/28/2023, 07/25/2023, and 12/12/2023. Attendees of the previously offered presentation RV-W022823, RV-W072523 and RV-W23233, will not receive CEU for attending the 06/04/2024 presentation.

  

This two-hour webinar introduces the urban design concept of a Sponge City, which was introduced as a pilot project in China but has quickly spread to many cities looking for resilient solutions to increased urban flooding. This type of city does not adhere to the conventional storm water management approach of using curb, gutter, and pipe storm water conveyance systems which is used by impermeable cities that treat flood water as a waste product. Instead, a Sponge City performs like a sponge and actually absorbs the rain water, which is then naturally filtered by the soil and allowed to infiltrate into urban aquifers. During this webinar, discussion will focus on the key issues the concept of Sponge City strives to solve, including: water availability in urban and peri-urban areas, water pollution issues, degradation of urban ecosystems, and the increase in frequency and intensity of urban flooding. This webinar will also draw on best practices and lessons learned from pilot projects around the world.