The Designer Who’s Trying to Transform Your City Into a Sponge
Mar 19, 2024•8 min
Episode description
Kongjian Yu pioneered China’s “sponge city” concept—less concrete and more green spaces to exploit stormwater instead of fighting it. Metropolises all over the world are following suit. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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