This PhD thesis aims to study the coupling of nonlinear shallow water models at different scales, with application to the numerical simulation of urban floods. Accurate simulations in this domain are usually prohibitively expensive due to the small mesh sizes necessary for the spatial discretization of the urban geometry and the associated small time steps constrained by stability conditions. Porosity-based shallow water models have been proposed in the past two decades as an alternative approach, consisting of upscaled models using larger mesh sizes and time steps and being able to provide good global approximations for the solution of the fine shallow water equations, with much smaller computational times. However, small-scale phenomena a...