Sponge City-Restoring Natural Water Flows in Cities can Lessen the Impacts of Floods and Droughts
- Abstract：
- ELEVENINCHES OF RAIN chucked downon Beijing on July 21, 2012, flooding roads andfilling underpasses. Landscape architect YuKongjian barely made it home from work.“I was lucky he says.“I saw many peopleabandon their cars” As the deluge continuedthe city descended into chaos. Beijing'slargest storm in more than 60 years killed79 people, most ofthem drowned in theirvehicles or sucked into underground drainsDamages reached nearly $2 billion.
Source: Erica Gies.Sponge City-Restoring Natural Water Flows in Cities Can Lessen the Impacts of Floods and Droughts[J].Scientific American.2018.pp32-37
