Future Cities, Livable Futures: Toward a Sustainable Model for Urban-Watershed Systems

随着全球人口的持续增长，城市必须应对为河流等特定水体提供径流的城市分水岭、城市及其周围土地的挑战和机遇。为了有效地做到这一点，城市必须使用一种系统的方法，整合科学、工程、设计、规划和政策的观点，同时纳入水边市民的意见。“未来城市，宜居未来：迈向城市-分水岭系统的可持续模式”研讨会将于2019年8月16日和17日在位于达拉斯-沃斯堡(DFW)大都市的德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校举行，讨论解决这些复杂问题的方法。与会者将有机会从不同的学科角度讨论和评估交通和相关基础设施系统、气候变化以及经济和人口增长对三一河流域的环境影响，以审查城市流域系统的复杂性。三一河流域的未来将被重新设想为全美未来城市分水岭管理和规划的相关模式。研讨会将提供一个很好的平台，介绍围绕城市分水岭管理的跨学科对话，探索最佳做法，并解释和更好地了解相互作用形成城市分水岭系统的不同因素。这次讲习班将形成一个跨学科的研究伙伴关系，旨在制定一项关于建立和管理可持续城市流域系统的研究倡议。这次讲习班将采用独特的参与式方法，结合设计和系统思维，探讨不同利益攸关方的需求以及水文和人工系统对城市流域施加的具体限制，同时也研究这些需求和限制如何加剧社会不平等和经济差距。这一方法将从关于最佳做法的跨部门介绍开始，并导致对三一河流域系统的未来进行亲身实践的重新想象。在参与者的投入下，首席调查人员将确定活动和研究领域，这些活动和研究领域将使利益相关者和合作者参与未来的努力，对DFW地区和美国其他城市的未来城市流域发展产生积极影响。系统科学将被用来破译不同的社会、环境和经济因素、模式和城市分水岭的行为如何相互作用，形成一个复杂的系统。网络分析还将用于将城市流域作为一个动态系统进行研究，以模拟相互作用并构成城市-流域关系的异质因素。根据会议收集的信息，研讨会领导人将更好地了解动态系统中环境、社会和经济变量之间的相互作用。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

As the global population continues to grow, cities must address the challenges and opportunities of urban watersheds, urban and surrounding lands that contribute runoff to a particular water body such as a river. To do this effectively, cities must use a systemic approach that integrates perspectives of science, engineering, design, planning, and policy, while incorporating input from citizens along the water's edge. The "Future Cities, Livable Futures: Toward a Sustainable Model for Urban-Watershed Systems" workshop will be held at the University of Texas at Arlington in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex on August 16 and 17, 2019, to discuss approaches to these complex problems. Participants will have an opportunity to discuss and evaluate the environmental impacts from transportation and related infrastructure systems, climate change, and economic and population growth on the Trinity River Watershed from a variety of disciplinary perspectives to examine the complexities of urban-watershed systems. The future of the Trinity River Watershed will be re-envisioned as a relevant model for future urban watershed management and planning across the United States. The workshop will provide a great platform to introduce cross-disciplinary dialogues around urban-watershed management, explore best practices, and explain and better understand the different factors that interact to form an urban-watershed system. This workshop will result in an interdisciplinary research partnership targeted at developing a research initiative on the creation and stewardship of sustainable urban watershed systems.This workshop will incorporate a unique participatory approach with design and systems thinking to explore the needs of different stakeholders and the concrete constraints that hydrological and human-made systems impose on urban watersheds, while also examining the manner in which these needs and constraints reinforce social inequity and economic disparity. This approach will begin with cross-sector presentations on best practices and lead to a hands-on re-imagination of the future of the Trinity River Watershed system. With inputs from participants, the principal investigators will identify activities and research areas that will engage stakeholders and collaborators in future endeavors with positive impacts on future urban watershed development in the DFW region and other cities in the United States. Systems sciences will be applied to decipher how different social, environmental, and economic factors, patterns, and behaviors of the urban watershed interact to form a complex system. Network analysis will also be used for the study of the urban watershed as a dynamic system in order to simulate the heterogeneous factors that interact and constitute urban-watershed relationships. Based on the information gathered from the conference, the workshop leaders will better understand the interactions among environmental, social, and economic variables within a dynamic system.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.