芝加哥大道.pptxVIP

URBAN DESIGN-ECO group;Eco-Boulevards;In April 2007, a United Nations report, reported that two thirds of the worlds population will face water scarcity by 2025, a situation that will inevitably lead to global conflict. Access to clean water is fundamental to our individual and collective health. Global climate change is an additional concern regarding freshwater resources. In particular, the UN panel warned that climate change could reduce water supplies in North America and conflicts between the U.S. and Canada on the water reserves. So even in the Great Lakes region, global warming could create more frequent droughts, urban flooding and a scramble for water.;Location Chicago is in the area of the Great Lakes of America, along Lake Michigan. 20% of freshwater reserves in the world are in the great lakes area. This equates to 95% of freshwater reserves of the United States. In 1899 it reversed the flow of the Chicago River to get water from the lake rather than come to this, so principal UrbanLab decision is to reverse this process and create a loop of 100% recycling of water out of Lake . This loop is carried out through Eco-Boulevards will have specially designed habitat for water recycling and capturing stormwater, through micro-organisms, invertebrates and vegetation. Furthermore, these Eco-Boulevards will join the existing park system. Finally, the massive drug tunnels and storm water drainage, obsolete at the time, was re used to improve light rail transit system in the city.;20% of the Earth’s fresh water is on deposit in the Great Lakes,95% of the United States’ fresh water is on deposit in the Great Lakes.1,000,000,000 gallons of Lake water per day are cosumed by Chicagoans,1% of drained water is revewed by Chicagoans. ;The growing Water project is inspired by three historic Chicago enigneering feats : (1) The “Emerald Necklace” of public parks , boulewards and waterways , which will be greatly supplemented by the new Eco-Boulevards; (2) The reversal of