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Streets as Ecosystems

Streets are Ecosystems

Foster, Josh, Ashley Lowe, and Steve Winkelman. “The value of green infrastructure for urban climate adaptation.” Center for Clean Air Policy 750 (2011).

Green, Tom L., Jakub Kronenberg, Erik Andersson, Thomas Elmqvist, and Erik Gómez-Baggethun. “Insurance value of green infrastructure in and around cities.” Ecosystems (2016): 1-13.

Lukes, Robb, and Christopher Kloss. “Managing wet weather with green infrastructure, Municipal Handbook, Green Streets.” Low Impact Development Center, Vol. 9. EPA-833-F-08 (2008), Environmental Protection Agency.

Netusil, Noelwah R., Zachary Levin, Vivek Shandas, and Ted Hart. “Valuing green infrastructure in Portland, Oregon.” Landscape and Urban Planning 124 (2014): 14-21.

“The relevance of street patterns and public space in urban areas.” UN-Habitat Working Paper (2013): http://mirror.unhabitat.org/downloads/docs/StreetPatterns.pdf.

Rosenzweig, C., W. Solecki, and New York City Panel on Climate Change. “Climate risk information 2013: Observations, climate change projections, and maps.” New York City Panel on Climate Change (June 2013). http://www. nyc. gov/html/planyc2030/downloads/pdf/npcc_climate_risk_ informatio (2013).

Walsh, Christopher J., Derek B. Booth, Matthew J. Burns, Tim D. Fletcher, Rebecca L. Hale, Lan N. Hoang, Grant Livingston et al. “Principles for urban stormwater management to protect stream ecosystems.” Freshwater Science 35, no. 1 (2016): 398-411.

Cities and Climate Change: An Urgent Agenda. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank (2010).


Planning For Stormwater

Developing a Sustainable Stormwater Network

Andersson, Erik, Stephan Barthel, Sara Borgström, Johan Colding, Thomas Elmqvist, Carl Folke, and Åsa Gren. “Reconnecting cities to the biosphere: Stewardship of green infrastructure and urban ecosystem services.” Ambio 43, no. 4 (2014): 445-453.

Dunec, JoAnne L. “Banking on green: A look at how green infrastructure can save municipalities money and provide economic benefits community-wide.” (2012): 62-63.

Kjellstrom, Tord, Sharon Friel, Jane Dixon, Carlos Corvalan, Eva Rehfuess, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Fiona Gore, and Jamie Bartram. “Urban environmental health hazards and health equity.” Journal of urban health 84, no. 1 (2007): 86-97.

Lennon, Michael, Scott, Mark and O’Neill, Eoin 2014. “Urban design and adapting to flood risk: therole of green infrastructure.” Journal of Urban Design 19 (5) , pp. 745-758.

Liu, Wen, Weiping Chen, and Chi Peng. “Assessing the effectiveness of green infrastructures on urban flooding reduction: A community scale study.” Ecological Modelling 291 (2014): 6-14.

Lovell, Sarah Taylor, and John R. Taylor. “Supplying urban ecosystem services through multifunctional green infrastructure in the United States.” Landscape ecology 28, no. 8 (2013): 1447-1463.

Pitt, Robert. “Small storm hydrology and why it is important for the design of stormwater control practices.” Advances in modeling the management of stormwater impacts 7 (1999): 61-91.

Ruckelshaus, Mary H., Gregory Guannel, Katherine Arkema, Gregory Verutes, Robert Griffin, Anne Guerry, Jess Silver, Joe Faries, Jorge Brenner, and Amy Rosenthal. “Evaluating the benefits of green infrastructure for coastal areas: Location, location, location.” Coastal Management 44, no. 5 (2016): 504-516.


Stormwater Streets

Stormwater Street Types

Anderson, Sarah, and Holly Piza. Ultra-Urban Green Infrastructure Guidelines. The City and County of Denver Public Works (2015).

Boston Complete Streets Design Guide. Boston Transportation Department, Boston, MA: 2013.

Chicago Department of Transportation. Complete Streets Chicago: Design Guidelines. City of Chicago, IL: 2013.

Deakin, Elizabeth, and Christopher Porter. “Transportation Impacts of Smart Growth and Comprehensive Planning Initiatives.” (2004).

Despins, Chris, Robb Lukes, Kyle Vander Linden, Phil James, Christine Zimmer, and Tyler Babony. Grey to Green Road Retrofits. Credit Valley Conservation (2013).

Green Infrastructure and Climate Change: Collaborating to Improve Community Resiliency, US Environmental Protection Agency (2016).

Hair, Lisa, and Melissa Kramer. City Green: Innovative Green Infrastructure Solutions For Downtowns And Infill Locations. US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Sustainable Communities (2016).

Hendrickson, Kenneth, Dominique Lueckenhoff, Christopher Kloss, and Tamara Mittman. Conceptual Green Infrastructure Design in the Point Breeze Neighborhood, City of Pittsburgh. US Environmental Protection Agency, Green Infrastructure Community Partner Program (2015).

Keane, Tim et al. Move Atlanta: a Design Guide for Active, Balanced & Complete Streets. City of Atlanta (2016).

MacAdam, James. Green Infrastructure for Southwestern Neighborhoods. Watershed Management Group (2012). Accessed Nov 2016: https://wrrc.arizona.edu/sites/wrrc.arizona.edu/files/WMG_Green%20Infrastructure%20for%20Southwestern%20Neighborhoods.pdf.

City of Philadelphia, Green Streets Design Manual. Philadelphia, PA: 2014. Accessed Dec. 2016 (http://www.phillywatersheds.org/img/GSDM/GSDM_FINAL_20140211.pdf)

Phillips, Ann Audrey. City of Tucson  Water Harvesting Guidance Manual (2005).

Stack, Rebecca C., Greg Hoffmann, and Brian Van Wye. Stormwater Management Guidebook. District Department of Transportation, Watershed Protection Division (2013).

Strecker, Eric, Aaron Poresky, Robert Roseen, Jane Soule, Venkat Gummadi, Rajesh Dwivedi, Adam Questad et al. Volume Reduction of Highway Runoff in Urban Areas: Final Report.NCHRP Report 802, Project 25-41. 2014. 

Trice, Amy. “Daylighting streams: breathing life into urban streams and communities.” American Rivers, Washington (2013).

Venner, Marie, Marc Leisenring, Eric Strecker, and Dan Pankani. Current Practice of Post-Construction Structural Stormwater Control Implementation for Highways. No. NCHRP 25-25 Task 83. 2013.


Stormwater Elements

Green Stormwater Elements

Jeanjean, A. P. R., P. S. Monks, and R. J. Leigh. “Modelling the effectiveness of urban trees and grass on PM2.5 reduction via dispersion and deposition at a city scale.” Atmospheric Environment 147 (2016): 1-10.

“EPA Cool Pavements Compendium.” US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC: accessed September 20, 2015. http://www.epa.gov/heatisld/resources/pdf/CoolPavesCompendium.pdf.

McKeand, Tina and Shirley Vaughn. Stormwater to Street Trees: Engineering Urban Forests for Stormwater Management. US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds (2013).

New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Guidelines for the Design and Construction of Stormwater Management Systems (2012). Accessed Nov 2016.

Green Infrastructure Configurations

Portland Bureau of Environmental Services, City of Portland Stormwater Management Manual (2016). Accessed Nov 2016.

Portland Bureau of Environmental Services, Stormwater Curb Extensions Design Manual (2013). Accessed Nov 2016.

Bioretention Design Considerations

Clapp, J. Casey, H. Dennis P. Ryan III, Richard W. Harper, and David V. Bloniarz. “Rationale for the increased use of conifers as functional green infrastructure: A literature review and synthesis.” Arboricultural Journal: The International Journal of Urban Forestry 36, no. 3 (2014): 161-178.

Kondo, Michelle C., Raghav Sharma, Alain F. Plante, Yunwen Yang, and Igor Burstyn. “Elemental concentrations in urban green stormwater infrastructure soils.” Journal of environmental quality 45, no. 1 (2016): 107-118. 

Phillips, Tom, Peg Staeheli, Bruce Meyers, Dick Lilly, NancyEllen Regier, and Anthony Harris, Seattle’s Natural Drainage Systems. Seattle Public Utilities (2013).

Montgomery, James A., Christie A. Klimas, Joseph Arcus, Christian DeKnock, Kathryn Rico, Yarency Rodriguez, Katherine Vollrath, Ellen Webb, and Allison Williams. “Soil quality assessment is a necessary first step for designing urban green infrastructure.” Journal of environmental quality 45, no. 1 (2016): 18-25.


Partnerships & Performance

Policies, Programs, & Partnerships

Dunn, A.D., 2010. Siting green infrastructure: legal and policy solutions to alleviate urban poverty and promote healthy communities. Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review, 37.

Green Stormwater Infrastructure in Seattle: Implementation Strategy 2015-2020. City of Seattle (2015).

Green Stormwater Infrastructure Maintenance Manual. City of Austin, Department of Watershed Protection (2016).

Hall, Abby. “Green infrastructure case studies: municipal policies for managing stormwater with Green Infrastructure.” Retrieved from United States Environmental Protection Agency: http://rfcd. pima. gov/pdd/lid/pdfs/40-usepa-gi-casestudies-2010. pdf (2010).

Philadelphia Water Department, Green Stormwater Infrastructure Maintenance Manual. Philadelphia, PA: 2014.

Performance Measures

Econsult Solutions, The Economic Impact of Green City, Clean Waters (2016).

Gill, Susannah E., John F. Handley, A. Roland Ennos, and Stephan Pauleit. “Adapting cities for climate change: the role of the green infrastructure.” Built environment 33, no. 1 (2007): 115-133.

Gómez-Baggethun, Erik, Åsa Gren, David N. Barton, Johannes Langemeyer, Timon McPhearson, Patrick O’Farrell, Erik Andersson, Zoé Hamstead, and Peleg Kremer. “Urban ecosystem services.” In Urbanization, biodiversity and ecosystem services: Challenges and opportunities, pp. 175-251. Springer Netherlands, 2013.

Hanley, Michael E., and Dave Goulson. “Introduced weeds pollinated by introduced bees: Cause or effect?.” Weed Biology and Management 3, no. 4 (2003): 204-212.

Houston, Douglas, Jun Wu, Paul Ong, and Arthur Winer. “Structural disparities of urban traffic in southern California: Implications for vehicle-related air pollution exposure in minority and high-poverty neighborhoods.” Journal of Urban Affairs 26, no. 5 (2004): 565-592. 

Jones, Matthew, and John McLaughlin. Green Infrastructure in New York City: Three Years of Pilot Implementation and Post-Construction Monitoring (2015).

Landscape Architecture Foundation. “Landscape Performance Series.” Accessed Dec. 2016
(http://landscapeperformance.org/).

Lee, Andrew CK, and R. Maheswaran. “The health benefits of urban green spaces: a review of the evidence.” Journal of public health 33, no. 2 (2011): 212-222.

New York City Department of Transportation, The Economic Benefits of Sustainable Streets. New York City, NY: 2013.

Vanderwarker, Amy. “Water and Environmental Justice.” A Twenty-First Century US Water Policy (2012): 52.