Urban living with water: Sustainable stormwater management for Liesing in Vienna

This thesis addresses how sustainable stormwater management can play a self-evident role in a trans-disciplinary landscape design process. It will be seen that experts, community and an urban designer are needed in order to explore improvements of the urban drainage system and possibilities for synergies. These synergies will enable stormwater management to become part of urban planning and design. Research by design has to be central in which it is important to approach stormwater as a system and work through different scales. The Sustainable Urban Drainage System (SUDS) approach and the derived design criteria are used as guidance for the design. Integration of sustainable stormwater management into the urban landscape is explored for the Liesingbach catchment area in Vienna and elaborated for the region Liesing Mitte and the new-build area Wiesen-Ost.