With changing climate, demographic patterns, and increasing urban concentration, cities will have to become more “water sensitive” than ever before. This short essay offers some tips.
Towards the Water-Sensitive City
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Introduction to Issue Four
For as long as people have been living with rivers, we have been changing them. Put up a levee to keep water away from where we don’t want it. Build a canal to move water to where we do want it. Put up a dam to stop floods or generate water power. Over millennia, the possibilities have been endless.