Research on the tensions of the connotation of Sponge City in China

2nd International Symposium on Resource Exploration and Environmental Science

生态环境科学

Wang, Xiaoli^1 ; Ding, Jiyong^1 ; Wang, Zhuofu^1

Business School, Hohai University, Nanjing, China^1

关键词: Low impact development;    Professional backgrounds;    Urban waters;    Western countries;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/170/3/032072/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/170/3/032072

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Chinese scholars hold different academic views on the connotation of Sponge City, given their diverse professional backgrounds, study perspectives and research philosophies. Their different views even raise conflicts, disagreements and contradictions which are jointly named as tensions in this paper. This paper primarily focuses on the tensions of the Sponge City from two aspects. On one hand, whether Sponge City equals to low impact development (LID) is analyzed; on the other hand, this paper discusses that Sponge City aims to coordinate urbanization with resources and environment or to solve urban water problems. The key to eliminating these tensions is to clarify the dialectical and unified relationship among "Sponge City", "LID", "water" and "urbanization". How the advanced concepts - BMPs, LID, GI/GSI, SUDS, WSUD, LIUDD and NDS - were developed in western countries may give new insights for interpreting this dialectical and unified relationship.