'THE SPONGE HANDBOOK: Chennai - Using the Landscape Approach to transform the South Buckingham Canal area' is a resource created by Sourav Kumar Biswas, Praveen Raj, Logeshwaran R S, Balaji Balaganesan, and Suriya K.P. The production of this document was facilitated by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Urban Design Collective as part of the Cities Fit for Climate Change global project.
THE SPONGE HANDBOOK: Chennai is designed to be a guiding document to align regional planning priorities and neighbourhood planning processes with the hydrological cycle of Chennai’s basins. The handbook uses the Buckingham Canal area to demonstrate how the Sponge Basin framework can lead to the re-imagination of urban neighbourhoods, transit stations, open spaces, streets, and the rejuvenation ofmulti-functional infrastructures like the canal itself.
