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  title info:
    title: Ecohydrological planning for The Woodlands
    sub title: lessons learned after 35 years
  name:
    name part: Yang, Bo.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Li, Ming-Han
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Huang, Chang-Shan
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: The Woodlands, Texas, is a 27,000-acre new town created with Ian McHarg's ecohydrological planning approach. The Woodlands is the best example of ecologically based new town planning in the United States during the 1970s. The Woodlands survived storms in excess of one-hundred-year levels in 1979 and 1994 with little property damage, while Houston, 31 miles away, was severely flooded in both events. For the past three decades, very few studies have been conducted to assess the effectiveness of McHarg's planning approach. The objective of this study is three fold: (1) To document McHarg's ecohydrological planning concepts, implementation and unveil the barriers to continue his approach; (2) To compare flood mitigation effectiveness of different drainage systems used in The Woodlands development; and (3) To simulate "what if" land-use scenarios using different planning approaches. Original development information is collected from published monographs, journal articles, newspapers and designers' collections. Geographic Information System (GIS) parcel data are obtained from Montgomery County Appraisal District. Streamflow data are acquired from the USGS website. Weather data are downloaded from the NOAA website. Land use and land cover data are collected from various national datasets. Two GIS hydrologic models -- the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) and the Kinematic Runoff and Erosion model (KINEROS) -- are used for watershed simulation. The statistic analysis tool SPSS is used for correlation analysis. Results show that McHarg's planning approach was followed in the early phases of development (1974-1996) but was largely abandoned in the later phases when its ownership was changed in 1997. McHarg's approach ceased to be implemented because of the low public acceptance of ecohydrological planning strategies and the conflicts between short-term investment return and long-term environmental stewardship. In addition, comparative study shows that the early phases of …
  note: by Bo Yang.
  note: "Major Subject: Urban and Regional Science"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created 2010-11-11 10:17:47).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A&M University 2009 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-08-7179
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major urban and regional science
  subject:
    topic: Soil Permeability
  subject:
    topic: Urban Planning
  subject:
    topic: GIS
  subject:
    topic: Flood Mitigation
  subject:
    topic: Modeling
  subject:
    topic: Ecological Planning
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-08-7179
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 101129
    record change date: 20151202112923.0
    record identifier: in00002669725