The hydro-cultural dimension in Water-Sensitive Urban Design for Kozhikode, India

Geert J.M. van der Meulen; Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin; Machiel J. van Dorst

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The hydro-cultural dimension in Water-Sensitive Urban Design for Kozhikode, India

Geert J.M. van der Meulen, Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin, Machiel J. van Dorst

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Water-Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) identifies water sensitivity as a goal for cities to strive for and develop towards. Certain cities may face rapidly changing socioeconomic and urban dynamics, or lack of data and documentation, greater than those in which WSUD has been conceptualized. Landscape-informed, design-based fieldwork methods of walking, observing, describing and drawing can help to understand how hydrological systems are linked to local water cultures and practices. This shifts the definition of water sensitivity away from a universal ideal future scenario to one that is mutable and determined by local qualities. The case of Kozhikode, India, illustrates how fieldwork and its forms of representation, with an emphasis on the design processes that WSUD calls for to be operationalized, can shed light on urban hydro-cultural dimensions. These dimensions extend hydrological indicators by incorporating cultural insights to be integrated into WSUD, thereby enhancing the context specificity and appropriateness of the concept. As such, design methodologies and the hydro-cultural dimension offer valuable contributions to WSUD and can facilitate its adoption worldwide.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	22-33
Number of pages	12
Journal	Journal of Landscape Architecture
Volume	18
Issue number	2-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2023.2347142
Publication status	Published - 2023

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implicit knowledge
landscape-informed fieldwork
secondary cities
water cultures
water sensitivity

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Enhancing context specificity of Water-Sensitive Urban Design: An urban design perspective on Indian secondary cities
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