Enlightenment of Foreign Theories of Sustainable Storm Water Management to Sponge Cities in China

Abstract

Abstract With the promotion of sponge cities in China, foreign theories of sustainable rain and flood management similar to sponge cities has also begun to attract attention from all sectors of society. In China, sponge cities are developing continuously. However, people’s doubts about sponge cities are rising because of people’s low understanding of sponge cities, some problems in the construction process of sponge cities, and the results so far are not significant. This paper makes a comparative study on the foreign theories of sustainable rain and flood management and sponge cities.