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The Designer Who’s Trying to Transform Your City Into a Sponge

March 15, 2024March 15, 2024

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.

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