Concrete vs. Nature: How Sponge Cities Turn Runoff into Urban Resilience
Rethinking Stormwater From Waste to Urban Resource For more than a century, urban drainage has been organized around a simple premise: rain is a problem to remove as quickly as possible. Streets, roofs, parking lots, and sidewalks shed water onto inlets, which feed a network of underground concrete pipes designed to move runoff toward a … Read moreConcrete vs. Nature: How Sponge Cities Turn Runoff into Urban Resilience