Sponge City and Nature-Based Solutions
Name of Event/Lecture
Sponge City and Nature-Based Solutions
Name of Speaker
Yu Kongjian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf-5pUHGAL0&list=PLxE1O0Xuz8RFrh5t_ujcw7Wpf-JZ6H_ep&index=2
Sponge City and Nature-Based Solutions
Yu Kongjian
Principal Designer, Turenscape; Professor, Peking University
Date: 13 Jan 2021
Climate change as a by-product of industrial civilization has challenged the way we live and the technologies we use to build our cities. More than ever, it is clear that we need a paradigm shift in planning and designing our city to adapt to the changing climate and solving the multiple urban water issues. We need to rethink the industrial technology-based, single-minded engineering solutions and rediscover nature based and symbiotic solutions, which will result in deep forms of landscape architecture.