Levee Type
In spatial planning Levee refers to a natural or artificial slope or wall to regulate water levels, called levee in US English.
In the Tygron Platform these levees play a special part. As dedicated Buildings they can affect safe zones and floods. By constructing a levee as an independent action or as part of a measure, the safe zone terrain will be expanded, protecting more houses and industry when a flood occurs. This can all be visualized in the Tygron Platform and a dedicated indicator can be set up to have the implementation of levees score on the stakeholder progression.
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High water in Lower Manhattan, before flood protection -
High water in Lower Manhattan, after flood protection -
Expanded safe zone in Lower Manhattan, after flood protection -
Lower Manhattan Housing units protected (Excel) indicator
Different ways of deploying levees in the Tygron Platform
In the Tygron Platform are two ways present to implement levees in a project; drawn in manually during the session as action, or deployed as part of a measure using LeveeSpatials.
Implementation as action allows for trying out new plans and ideas. This can for instance be convenient when the project is part of an outreach to non-planners, for example residents or business owners, to let them try their own plans and ideas without an engineer pre-planning the flood protection for them. This can give session participants a stronger sentiment of involvement with the project.
On the other hand, deploying the levees as part of a predefined measure enables a project to quickly switch between different pre-planned alignments, in order to visualize the impact of each alignment on the indicators.
How-to's
- How to add a Levee Type to an Action Menu
- How to edit properties of a Levee Type
- How to add a Levee Spatial to a Measure
- How to edit properties of a Levee Spatial
See also
Future Design