Norman Creek Catchment: dwelling on floodscapes

Abstract

The existence of water catchments within inner city locations can often be obscured by the patterns of urban development that dominate the form and experience of the city. The Norman Creek catchment situated south-east of Brisbane’s CBD is one example, typical of many, where the expansion of a city dominates the presence of earlier landscapes.The research outlined in this report takes a multi-modal approach to determining urban development potentials by mapping a number of environmental information layers in correlation with one other. Principal among these layers is water and its interaction with the environment. The character of Norman Creek catchment as an inhabited floodscape can be used as a means to understand the capacity of future urban development