This new park is designed for a future of flooded cities || Fast Company
Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn Centennial Park can hold a million gallons of rainwater to help control the city’s increasing floods.
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Floods, Cities and Water Management
a collection of articles about flooding, and cities around the world prepare and deal with natural disasters.
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How to Build a City That Doesn’t Flood? Turn it Into a Sponge
Cities encourage potentially devastating floods by laying down asphalt and pavement. Could this be avoided by making them "spongier" and more absor...
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Why rivers shouldn't look like this | It's Complicated
The quintessential image of a river you might recognise from post cards and paintings – nice and straight with a tidy riverbank – is not actually h...
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Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’
New York Times, 2017: "Japan has spent billions on an underground system to control water around the capital, but some fear that the city is vulner...
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Flood Thy Neighbor: Who Stays Dry and Who Decides? — ProPublica
One Missouri town’s levee saga captures what's wrong with America's approach to controlling rivers.
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The sinking islands of the Southern USA || BBC - Travel
The rich traditions of the Gullah Geechee are at risk of being lost, threatened by what is arguably one of the most harrowing issues the world face...
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Rising sea levels and restoring Louisiana’s coastline - Curbed
Can engineering save Louisiana’s coastline?
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Chicago Dug the World’s Biggest Flood-Stopping Tunnel. What if the City Got It Wrong?
The Deep Tunnel was supposed to provide “a total solution to the flood problem.” It hasn’t.
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‘Breaches Everywhere’: Flooding Bursts Midwest Levees, and Tough Questions Follow - The New York Times
Hundreds of miles of levees in the Midwest have been overwhelmed by the floods, leaving “Swiss cheese” infrastructure and reigniting a flood contro...
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Venice Battles Flooding Amid Highest Tide in 50 Years - The New York Times (2019)
The mayor called for a state of emergency and the closing of all schools after the Italian city was submerged under “acqua alta,” an exceptionally ...
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Michigan Dam(s) Fail! Tittabawassee River.
Overview of the Boyce Hydro System and What we know so far. LINKS: Drone Footage
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