Tag: Yu, Kongjian

Kongjian Yu Has a Plan for Urban Flooding: ‘Sponge Cities’

Cities around the world face a daunting challenge in the era of climate change: Supercharged rainstorms are turning streets into rivers, flooding subway systems and inundating residential neighborhoods, often with deadly consequences. Kongjian Yu, a landscape architect and professor at Peking University, is developing what might seem like a counterintuitive response: Let the water in. […]

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