Wastewater Urbanism

Wastewater urbanism describes approaches to urban design that integrate sewage and water treatment as spatial and ecological infrastructures. Rather than concealing waste flows, it foregrounds them as productive systems—constructed wetlands, bio-filtration landscapes, or civic infrastructures that double as public space. Wastewater urbanism reframes pollution not as residue to be hidden but as a material to be metabolized within ecological cycles. It unsettles the dichotomy of clean versus dirty by situating waste as constitutive of urban metabolism. The concept ties infrastructure, ecology, and public life into a single spatial register.

/ Urška Škerl

The book, Thinking Through Soil: Wastewater Agriculture in the Mezquital Valley, by Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich and Seth Denizen, came out last week, published by Harvard University Design Press. It is an enormous study, partly conducted through the Thinking Through Soil studio course at the GSD, Department of Landscape Architecture, and with the help of the […]

/ Kelly Shannon

During all the media coverage—particularly in the United States—of Hurricanes Harvey (Category 4, 17 August-1 September), Irma (Category 5, 30 August-12 September), Jose (Category 4, 5-22 September) and Maria (Category 5, 16-30 September), the flooding and subsequent trail of destruction in Houston and southeast Texas, South Florida and the Caribbean, there was ceaseless talk of […]

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