Dubai is adopting the "Sponge City" model through a partnership with Shenzhen to enhance climate resilience and manage heavy ...

On July 2, 2011, the sky opened up and dumped over five inches of rain on Copenhagen streets in just two hours. When the waters finally receded, the city faced nearly $2 billion in damages. The city's ...

Most cities today are not built to handle the kind of extreme weather that climate change inflicts. The asphalt and concrete that are the building blocks of the modern metropolis absorb heat, making ...

When a heavy storm dumped 5 1/2 inches of rain on San Francisco on New Year’s Eve—more than the city usually gets in the entire month of December—streets started to flood. In one small Japanese ...

In 2019, when the Thai government announced plans to turn an abandoned tobacco factory in the nation’s smoggy capital into a public park, Bangkok-based landscape architect Chatchanin Sung saw an ...

While most of the world dithers in the face of climate catastrophe, Beijing-based landscape architect Kongjian Yu has been implementing climate resilience projects on a vast scale. Winning the ...

Most architects look to control nature; Kongjian Yu wants it to take over. Intense storms are on the rise and cities across the world are finding it difficult to cope with deluges of floodwater. But ...

Water scarcity, flooding, and overstretched infrastructure pose enormous challenges for megacities around the world. This is particularly evident in the 23-million-inhabitant metropolis of Mexico City ...

A walkway goes through ponds and islets at the "Fish Tail" sponge park that's built on a former coal ash dump site in Nanchang in China's Jiangxi province on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Ng Han ...

An overview of the "Am Seebogen" neighborhood in Vienna, Austria on Sept. 26, 2022. Credit - Ingmar Björn Nolting for TIME By themselves, the young trees lining a still barren boulevard in Vienna’s ...

BEIJING (AP) — To cushion the impact of extreme weather due to climate change, a Chinese landscape architect has been making the case for China and other countries to create so-called “sponge cities.” ...