O arquiteto chinês Kongjian Yu diz que é preciso parar de “lutar contra a água” e investir em soluções duradouras e baseadas na natureza

Todo parece indicar que la estrategia de luchemos en contra del cambio climático ya no funciona, qué tal si la cambiamos por adaptémonos a como dé lugar. Y a qué me refiero, fenómenos como las inundaciones que cada vez cogen más y más fuerza (el caso de Brasil, por ejemplo), nos dan muestras de que no van a parar en un futuro próximo. Todo lo contrario, cada vez son más extremas.

The city should use this urban planner's idea ofabsorbing,cleaning and using rainwaterefrcientlyand sustainably His concept is not just about managing water, but harmonizing urban development with nature's cycles.

Professor Kongjian Yu, “the sponge cities architect’ explains it like this: “We can make friends with floods. We can make friends with water.” This is done by increasing the number of green spaces in a city and letting such spaces act as natural flood absorbers. On a micro level, these include rain gardens — depressed areas in the landscape that collects rain water from a roof, driveway or street and allows it to soak into the ground. These can be planted with grass or flowering plants or even s...