Weak Foundations and Fragmentation in Sponge City Construction Must Be Addressed

2016-11-04 745 0人评论
  Guided and supported by national policies and funding, and driven by the first and second batches of sponge city pilot projects, sponge city construction has achieved some encouraging results, but at the same time it has also exposed some problems and contradictions, such as differing views, misunderstandings, and even doubts about sponge city construction.
  Weak Foundations and Fragmentation in Sponge City Construction Must Be Addressed   
  The boom in sponge city construction in China has created a huge market and still has broad room for development in the future. This has not only aroused great enthusiasm and attention in the academic and engineering circles of directly related disciplines such as water supply and drainage engineering and environmental engineering, but has also attracted widespread attention and active participation from related disciplines such as hydraulic engineering, landscape architecture, urban planning, and architecture. The sponge city construction being promoted in China today is both a relatively new concept and an "emerging" field, and in fact also contains much traditional professional content. It involves not only multiple branches of the water profession, but also multiple disciplines and multiple departments. Faced with such a complex systems engineering effort and rapid development, the professional field as a whole has shown insufficient research and technological reserves.
  Guided and supported by national policies and funding, and driven by the first and second batches of sponge city pilot projects, sponge city construction has achieved some encouraging results, but at the same time it has also exposed some problems and contradictions, such as differing views, misunderstandings, and even doubts about sponge city construction. Some of these arise from a lack of clear understanding of the complex relationship between the connotation and system of sponge cities and from insufficient estimation of the difficulty and long-term nature of sponge city construction, while others arise from collisions between different disciplines or other factors. Amid the vigorous boom in sponge city construction, rational thinking is urgently needed to correct unnecessary misreadings and misunderstandings, so as to reduce confusion and resistance formed in sponge city construction and facilitate its sustainable development.
  

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