Browsing: flood relief

Professor Kongjian Yu, a Chinese professor in 2013 created a new scientific concept with an objective to save lives. It’s called a sponge city. And it’s a type of natural infrastructure that architects around the world are designing to help us combat and withstand a changing climate. This isn’t a forest. Not really. It’s actually an urban park in the densely populated city of Nanchang, China. Filled with birds, native trees and volcanic rock on acres of urban land.

In Uttar Pradesh (UP), severe flooding has ravaged approximately 900 villages spanning across 20 districts. This natural disaster has disrupted…