Can The Construction Of Sponge Cityies Be The Framework For The Development Of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems? Case Study: Case Study: One Or Two Sponge Cities In China
1． Generic structure for dissertations
1. an introduction to the study, outlining: (a) background to the topic, in terms of key policy and/or research questions, issues and debates; (b) the shape and scope of the dissertation, outlining for the reader the broad purpose of the study, where you can choose to introduce the overall aim and the objectives of the research (more frequent in quantitative research); (c) an outline of the structure of the dissertation.
2. a literature review, which provides an overview of a range of literature relevant to the topic chosen, including appropriate policy documents and technical reports as well as other academic work detailing research findings in your chosen field of study. The purpose is to identify gaps in the overall body of research and to outline the (modest) ways in which your research can fill those gaps and expand the larger body of knowledge. It is not simply a summary of everything written on a particular topic; rather, it is an attempt to locate your research within the broader array of knowledge on a particular subject. This, in turn, provides a detailed justification for, and explanation of, the research questions or hypotheses around which your work will be structured.
In summary, then, a literature review should synthesise others’ work, highlighting the key themes to emerge from other studies and applying these to your own research. You should not treat the literature review as simply a summary or précis of policy documents, journal articles and books: it should not be, for example, ‘everything I know about housing land’, or ‘everything I know about transport policy’. Instead, the literature review must be related to the tightly defined research questions or hypotheses which your study is intended to address. In other words, it requires your own assessment of the key findings of earlier work which relates to your topic. A literature review has to be comprehensive, covering policy debates as well as theoretical and conceptual issues (i.e. academic literature). It is also important that you concentrate on literature which is of direct relevance to your work; skip-read related material of only marginal relevance.
3. the methodology , which details your research plan. You can introduce your overall aim and objectives here, instead of the introduction (more frequent in qualitative research). Here you introduce your methodological framework and justify its rationale. You detail how you have implemented the different methods in order to generate and collect data that are used to address the research questions.
4. a results chapter, outlining the findings of research undertaken (e.g. review of policy and technical documents, interviews with key actors, questionnaire-based surveys, or analysis of data collected from secondary sources such as the Census). (In some cases it may be more appropriate to collapse this chapter with the subsequent one. Your supervisor will advise you on this).
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5. an analysis and evaluation chapter, exploring the significance of the results, relating them to the ‘bigger picture’ issues outlined in your literature review and highlighting the implications in light of the research questions or hypotheses. This chapter can be combined with the results chapter.
6. a concluding chapter, where you demonstrate how you have met your overall aim and the research objectives, discussing the main findings presented in the previous chapters, and highlighting the implications of your work for policies, practices, theories or techniques, and setting out the ways in which your research has advanced or reinforced knowledge of your chosen subject area.
7. a full reference list, covering all works cited in the main text.
8. any other relevant reference materials, which may be presented in the appendices。
2． Word count：
15,000 words in total
Introduction 1000
Literature review 3500
Methods1500
Fieldwork/Results 4000
Analysis and evaluation 3500
Conclusion 1500
3． The theme and the research plan and method adopted
1．Title：
Can the construction of sponge cityies be the framework for the development of sustainable urban drainage systems? Case study: One or two cities in China
2． The aim of this research is:
Aim: To study whether the construction system of China’s sponge cities can promote the development of sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS), thereby solving various “water issues” in cities (urban floods, waterlogging, etc.)
3．The objectives of this research are：
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4. The general idea of Intro and literature review:
background introduction (for example: due to the increase of extreme rainfall and weather due to climate change, various water problems in cities, especially urban floods and waterlogging); causes of urban water problems (invalidation of traditional urban drainage systems) Even paralyzed); China’s traditional drainage system (deficiencies, defects); sustainable drainage system (concept, function (solving urban water crisis, flood disaster), importance); China’s existing (common) sustainable drainage system and development Current status, shortcomings; sponge city (definition; characteristics; advantages and usefulness); new direction: the development of urban sustainable drainage system in the construction of SC system (considering the special characteristics and functions of SC can be used to promote the development and development of sustainable drainage system Participate in the construction of a sustainable drainage system; current authors’ research status and deficiencies in this new direction).
5．Proposed Methodology
1）Document analysis
Through documents, literature, reports, books and urban planning documents related to specific research topics, the feasibility, development status (results), research progress, deficiencies and challenges of developing sustainable urban drainage systems under the construction concept of sponge cities are obtained , Improvement, new development trends and research directions, etc. This information includes: definitions, data, charts, The core content of specific research, etc. Analyze and review the documents related to the research theme, and finally use it to evaluate the theme and draw conclusions.
2）Secondary data analysis
All secondary data from network datasets (literatures, documents, reports, papers). The analysis and research of Secondary data can draw the status quo of the development of the drainage system in the sponge city and under the concept of sponge city, how to improve the deficiencies and shortcomings of the development of urban drainage systems, so as to better promote the development of sustainable drainage systems and ecological cities.
3）Case studies technique
Through the analysis of typical cases of “sponge cities” (one or two cases) that have developed better sustainable drainage systems in China, studying their impact on sustainable drainage systems and the development of ecological cities. Understand the urban water problems (waterlogging, water shortage, black and odorous water bodies, destruction of natural landscapes and ecosystems) that occurred under the traditional urban drainage system in the past. Today’s achievements in the development of sustainable urban drainage systems include whether the pressure on urban drainage systems has been basically eased and controlled, whether urban flood and waterlogging have been basically resolved, whether water resources can be recycled, whether urban natural landscapes have been restored, etc.
In addition, through the study of the sustainable drainage data of these sponge cities, the advantages and disadvantages of the sustainable drainage systems of these cities are evaluated and compared, and improvements and suggestions are made to the shortcomings and shortcomings. Finally, based on the concept of sponge city construction, after adopting a reasonable and correct innovative research plan to improve the sustainable urban drainage system, predict the possibility of water problems in the city in the future (waterlogging, water pollution, water shortage, lack of groundwater level, etc).
