Zhengzhou, in northeastern China on the banks of the Yellow River, was an enthusiastic early adopter of the sponge city concept, spending hundreds of millions of dollars building related projects from 2016 to 2021 ...
Edmund Penning-Rowsell, a research associate at the University of Oxford who focuses on water security, said the scale of the sponge city projects would have to be huge to cope with flooding on their own ...
topZhengzhou, in northeastern China on the banks of the Yellow River, was an enthusiastic early adopter of the sponge city concept, spending hundreds of millions of dollars building related projects from 2016 to 2021
topEdmund Penning-Rowsell, a research associate at the University of Oxford who focuses on water security, said the scale of the sponge city projects would have to be huge to cope with flooding on their own
topOne of Mr. Yu's projects abroad is the Benjakitti Forest Park, a maze of ponds, trees and miniature islands in Bangkok that was opened to the public in 2022 and occupies more than hundred acres on the site of a former tobacco factory
top. Where large tracts of land are not available, sponge city projects are replacing concrete and asphalt with permeable pavement, installing green roofs and creating trenches...
top... maze of ponds, trees and miniature islands in Bangkok that was opened to the public in 2022 and occupies more than hundred acres on the site of a former tobacco factory.
top... sponge city projects are replacing concrete and asphalt with permeable pavement, installing green roofs and creating trenches called bioswales that channel storm-water runoff and use vegetation to filter out debris and pollution.
topZhengzhou, in northeastern China on the banks of the Yellow River, was an enthusiastic early adopter of the sponge city concept, spending hundreds of millions of dollars building related projects from 2016 to 2021
topYu calls the concept "sponge city" and says it's like "doing tai chi with water," a reference to the Chinese martial art in which an opponent's energy and moves are redirected, not resisted
topThe sponge city program was formally inaugurated by President Xi Jinping in 2015 with pilot projects in 16 Chinese cities and has since expanded to more than 640...
top... city" and says it's like "doing tai chi with water," a reference to the Chinese martial art in which an opponent's energy and moves are redirected, not resisted.
topThe sponge city program was formally inaugurated by President Xi Jinping in 2015 with pilot projects in 16 Chinese cities and has since expanded to more than 640 sites in 250 municipalities around the country
topThe sponge city program was formally inaugurated by President Xi Jinping in 2015 with pilot projects in 16 Chinese cities and has since expanded to more than 640 sites in 250 municipalities around the...
top... concept "sponge city" and says it's like "doing tai chi with water," a reference to the Chinese martial art in which an opponent's energy and moves are redirected, not resisted.
top... by President Xi Jinping in 2015 with pilot projects in 16 Chinese cities and has since expanded to more than 640 sites in 250 municipalities around the country.
topBut torrential rains inundated much of the city in July 2021, creating scenes of destruction and killing hundreds, including at least 14 in a subway tunnel
topWhere large tracts of land are not available, sponge city projects are replacing concrete and asphalt with permeable pavement, installing green roofs and creating trenches...
topWhere large tracts of land are not available, sponge city projects are replacing concrete and asphalt with permeable pavement, installing green roofs and creating trenches called bioswales that channel storm-water runoff and use vegetation to filter out debris and pollution
topThe goal, at least on paper, is that by 2030, 70 percent of the rain that falls on China's sponge cities during extreme weather events should be absorbed locally rather than accumulate in the streets
top... years and we haven't solved the flooding problem," he said, noting that much of China has a monsoon climate subject to extremely heavy bursts of rain that pose an increasing hazard as climate change advances.
top... using the conventional drainage infrastructure for 200 years and we haven't solved the flooding problem," he said, noting that much of China has a monsoon climate subject to extremely heavy bursts of rain that pose an increasing hazard as climate change advances
top"We've been using the conventional drainage infrastructure for 200 years and we haven't solved the flooding problem," he said, noting that much of China has a monsoon climate subject to extremely heavy...
top... the flooding problem," he said, noting that much of China has a monsoon climate subject to extremely heavy bursts of rain that pose an increasing hazard as climate change advances.
top"We've been using the conventional drainage infrastructure for 200 years and we haven't solved the flooding problem," he said, noting that much of China has a monsoon climate subject to...
topThe goal, at least on paper, is that by 2030, 70 percent of the rain that falls on China's sponge cities during extreme weather events should be absorbed locally rather than accumulate in the streets
topYu last year, echoed Professor Kirkwood, saying Mr. Yu's impact on policy in China, a country that has been more likely to imprison environmental activists than take their messages to heart, has been astonishing
topYu's impact on policy in China, a country that has been more likely to imprison environmental activists than take their messages to heart, has been astonishing
top... of urban areas in China experience some degree of flooding each year, according to Mr. Yu. The country is currently the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases.
topThe goal, at least on paper, is that by 2030, 70 percent of the rain that falls on China's sponge cities during extreme weather events should be absorbed locally rather than accumulate in the streets
topYu said growing up in a village in Zhejiang Province toward the end of the Cultural Revolution showed him how earlier generations in rural China had "made friends with water." Farmers in his region...
topYou'd probably need half of Manhattan.". . Zhengzhou, in northeastern China on the banks of the Yellow River, was an enthusiastic early adopter of the sponge city concept, spending hundreds of millions of dollars building related projects from 2016 to 2021
topThe sponge city program was formally inaugurated by President Xi Jinping in 2015 with pilot projects in 16 Chinese cities and has since expanded to more than 640 sites...
topThe sponge city program was formally inaugurated by President Xi Jinping in 2015 with pilot projects in 16 Chinese cities and has since expanded to more than 640 sites in 250 municipalities around the country