Urban Hydrology ―Geographical Approach to Urban Hydrology―

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  • 都市水文学―地理学からのアプローチ―
  • トシ スイモンガク チリガク カラ ノ アプローチ

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The extension of urban land surface has modified the original nature of physical environment within the area. Although climatic and biotic changes have attrackted many attentions, changes on water balance in the city must be taken as a factor controlling the modification. Thin paper summerizes the development of urban hydrology, and proposes several geographical approaches to the study. Since the study of urban hydrology combines water movement and land use, it seems that wide fields of the research are provided for geographers. To summerize urban landform, land use, road and channel networks for hydrological purposes may be the urgent works. Transport of water, food, fuel, industrial products and so forth, must be evaluated geographically. Water balance of cities in different climatic regions in the world have to be examined, and the result will give useful information for the planning of cities in developing countries. Changes in groundwater level and spring have been studied by geographers. The importance of spring water on river environment will increase in the future. Artifical modification of landform and its geomorphological results, such as river bed enlargement, increase in suspended transport and deposition, must be studied systematically. Basis for the analysis of “waterscape” have not been established, but the problem seems to be important for urban geography.

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