Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgement -- Wingspread Workshop Organizing Committee -- Introduction to the book -- Preface: Cities of the future: The fifth paradigm of urbanization -- Part One: Urban Water Sustainability -- 1. The importance of water infrastructure and the environment in tomorrow's cities -- 2. Developments towards urban water sustainability in the Chicago metropolitan area -- 3. Water and cities - overcoming inertia and achieving a sustainable future -- Part Two: Impact of Extreme Events -- 4. Hurricane realities, models, levees and wetlands -- 5. Water quality and public health - case studies of Hurricane Katrina and the December 2004 tsunami in Thailand -- Part Three: Monitoring, Urban Observatories and Total Mass Balance of Pollution in Cities -- 6. Design of an environmental field observatory for quantifying the urban water budget -- 7. Ecosystem approaches to reduce pollution in cities -- 8. Field data requirements for monitoring and modelling of urban drainage systems -- Part Four: Hydrologic and Pollution Stresses, Response of Receiving Waters -- 9. Ground water and cities -- 10. Framework for risk-based assessment of stream response to urbanization -- 11. Urban diffuse pollution and solutions in Japan -- 12. Tools for the evaluation of stormwater management practices that provide ecological stability in urban streams -- 13. Effluent dominated water bodies, their reclamation and reuse to achieve sustainability -- Part Five: Integrated Solutions - Water and Landscape -- 14. Reclaimed stormwater and wastewater and factors affecting their reuse -- 15. Centralized and decentralized urban water, wastewater & storm water systems -- 16. Urban ecological design and urban ecology: An assessment of the state of current knowledge and a suggested research agenda -- 17. Green infrastructure for cities: The spatial dimension.

18. Strategic planning of the sustainable future wastewater and biowaste system in Göteborg, Sweden -- 19. The role of low impact redevelopment/development in integrated watershed management planning: Turning theory into practice -- 20. Automation and real-time control in urban stormwater management -- Part Six: Implementing Future Urban Hydrological and Ecological Systems -- 21. Urban drainage at cross-roads: Four future scenarios ranging from business-as-usual to sustainability -- 22. Overcoming legal barriers to hydrological sustainability of urban systems -- 23. Ecosystem resilience and institutional change: the evolving role of public water suppliers -- 24. Financial, economic, and institutional barriers to "green" urban development: The case of stormwater -- 25. Restoring the Charles River watershed using flow trading -- Appendix -- Index.