Most cities today are not built to handle the kind of extreme weather that climate change inflicts. The asphalt and concrete that are the building blocks of the modern metropolis absorb heat, making ...

When it did not stop raining even on the eve of Navratri in Mumbai, well into the third week of September, worry was writ large for many in the city. When it poured incessantly and voluminously to ...

Renowned Chinese architect and urban planner Kongjian Yu, celebrated worldwide for pioneering the concept of “sponge cities”, died in a plane crash late Tuesday in Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul state.

In 2019, when the Thai government announced plans to turn an abandoned tobacco factory in the nation’s smoggy capital into a public park, Bangkok-based landscape architect Chatchanin Sung saw an ...