{"id":32520,"date":"2024-03-17T12:42:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T16:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=32520"},"modified":"2024-03-17T12:42:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T16:42:16","slug":"the-designer-whos-trying-to-transform-your-city-into-a-sponge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=32520","title":{"rendered":"The Designer Who\u2019s Trying to Transform Your City Into a Sponge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/SanyaMangroveParkSanyaHainanProvinceChina2018.PhotoTurenscapecourtesyTheCulturalLandscapeFoundation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"156\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Kongjian Yu pioneered China\u2019s \u201csponge city\u201d concept\u2014less concrete and more green spaces to exploit stormwater instead of fighting it. Metropolises all over the world are following suit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-designer-whos-trying-to-transform-your-city-into-a-sponge\/\">The Designer Who\u2019s Trying to Transform Your City Into a Sponge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>as always, will be resisted if it costs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The sponge city is basically using free nature. It\u2019s\u00a0<em>simple<\/em>. The problem is that it\u2019s free. No one wants to invest in it, because no one can make money. That\u2019s why I say that we need to change the business model. We need changes of policy, and we need changes of philosophy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kongjian Yu pioneered China\u2019s \u201csponge city\u201d concept\u2014less concrete and more green spaces&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1672,1373,30,870,140,205],"class_list":["post-32520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-cities","tag-drought","tag-environment","tag-floods","tag-paul","tag-water","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32523,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32520\/revisions\/32523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}