The necessity for re-thinking the way we plan our cities with the focus on Malmö / Towards urban-planning based urban runoff management
The project is proposed in order to highlight the necessity for developing a climate-robust urban planning. The City Blueprint baseline assessment was chosen to evaluate the sustainability of urban water cycle services (UWCS) of Malmö and compare it with Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Copenhagen as cities which experienced extreme water events in their history. Although Swedish Municipalities previously have done many efforts for adaptation to climate changes, at least in case of Malmö the experiences showed that it was not enough. The City of Malmö needs to revise its methodology. The purpose of this paper is to encourage Swedish cities to take more advantage of urban planning and design in order to develop climate-robust planning and appropriate sustainable solutions for urban runoff management. Climate-robust planning is supposed to formulate strategies and reduce the collaboration gap between water and environmental engineers, urban planners, architects and all the cities’ decision-makers