ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how landscape architecture research contributes to generating knowledge that helps to solve urban water challenges. The global urban population is expected to increase by 60 per cent from 2014 to 2050 (UN DESA 2014). The global urban area is expected to double or triple by 2030, in comparison to the year 2000 (Seto et al. 2011). These are changes that define hydrological challenges such as increasing water requirement and water shortages, insufficient infrastructure for wastewater and urban drainage, and greater flood risk. Local water supplies might become scarce, or the water quality might be poor. In some parts of the world cities are in decline and the dwindling number of users makes the existing urban water system expensive and/or infeasible to operate.
