even stormwater reform won’t be enough – we need a ‘sponge city’ to avoid future disasters
- Written by: Timothy Welch, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland
Getty ImagesWe’ve built our cities to be vulnerable to – and exacerbate – major weather events such as the one we saw in Auckland on Friday. While almost no city in the world could fully escape the effects of four months’ worth of rain in 24 hours, there are many things that could have been done to avoid some of the worst...
