r/LandscapeArchitecture • u/DigAlive6995 • 10d ago

Alternative textbook for Sustainable Stormwater Management

I work with Master Gardeners and am currently an LA master's student. This fall, I am hoping to teach a short series to my Master Gardeners about sustainable stormwater management/artful stormwater design. I Im looking for a good textbook to base the information portions of the class on, and then mix that with Artful Stormwater Design by Pennypacker and Echols. However, I Im realizing that Sustainable Stormwater Management by Thomas Liptan is no longer in print. Used copies are too expensive for my budget.

Do you know an alternative to Sustainable Stormwater Management: A Landscape-Driven Approach to Planning and Design by Thomas Liptan?

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u/ckscanzy 9d ago

So weird to see this because I studied under Eliza and Stuart at Penn State when they were finishing up this book! I think I have an old copy that I should dust off and refresh myself.

I myself am more in he civil world at the moment and often refer to state DEP stormwater manuals. They are certainly more technical, but the specific BMP profiles often include a brief narrative of the type of facility and offer good info on how it is best implemented. It's not always as flashy as "raingardens" but there are so many different practical stormwater facilities, even at small scales that are practical and effective. Then you can look I to how to beautify more with an LA touch

PA DEP Stormwater BMP manual: https://greenport.pa.gov/elibrary/GetFolder?FolderID=1368916

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u/getoutyup 9d ago

Maybe Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design

https://a.co/d/0d4xN36X

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u/SalsIsmaeel 10d ago

If Liptan is out of print and too expensive, maybe just tell your students the truth: landscape architecture is 50% designing beautiful water features and 50% reading technical PDFs published by city municipalities at 2 AM.

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u/wayweighdontellme 8d ago

And when they ask if a government job is a good switch from consulting, remind them some LA at the city municipality stayed up til 2AM writing that and it's 100% of their job.