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On a rainy day in Portland, Oregon, a man stops at New Seasons Market at Arbor Lodge to pick up a few items for dinner. As he hurries inside, he looks up above the entrance canopy and notices that rain is spewing from a spout near the roof and onto a metal sculpture of salmon that appear to be swimming upstream against the current of the falling rain. For just a moment he’s reminded that runoff from rain flows from rooftop to river; it had better be clean and plentiful!
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Tom Liptan, Personal communication with authors, 2013.
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Elizabeth Meyer, “Sustaining Beauty: The Performance of Appearance,” Landscape Architecture 98, no. 10 (2008): 92–131.
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Echols, S., Pennypacker, E. (2015). Introduction. In: Artful Rainwater Design. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-318-8_1
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