Urban stormwater drainage design and its consequences on the configuration of urban environments [Parámetros en el diseño de drenaje urbano y sus consecuencias en la construcción de la imagen urbana]
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This book invites readers to re-imagine the future of San Luis Potosi (SLP) and one of its paved streams: the Santiago River. Through scenarios and architectural and landscape projects that result from the international workshop “A motorway called Rio”, the work visualizes a sustainable and socially just city. Within this imaginary, gray infrastructure, as a technological answer to a developmentalist era can no longer be the only strategy to approach the ecological problems that cities currently face. With this in mind, the book is divided in three sections: the first shows the background and analyses, an atlas of regional and urban maps and a toolbox that can be used to intervene the river. The second section presents the design process and resulting projects and the third shows how the projects were exhibited in Oslo and SLP, reflects upon other possible cities and closes with conclusions.
