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.
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