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2014 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
2. Toward Infrastructural Ecologies: Interconnected, Multipurpose, and Synergistic Systems
verfasst von : Hillary Brown
Erschienen in: Next Generation Infrastructure
Verlag: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
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Abstract
Completed in May 2007, the 9.7-km (6-mi.) Storm Water Management and Road Tunnel (SMART), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia—a densely developed city of 1.6 million—marries two seemingly incompatible uses. Most of the time, the tunnel diverts automobile traffic from the congested central business district, reducing travel time by as much as 75 percent (and reducing the associated air pollution from vehicles otherwise idling in traffic jams.)1 During heavy rains the tunnel also serves to retain stormwater from the flood-prone areas downtown. The tunnel’s 3-million-cubic-meter (105.9-million-cubic-foot) storage capacity diverts up to 90 percent of stormwater in a heavy storm.2