Shamika Ravi wrote in Times of India that the recent Chennai floods remind us that "the pace of urbanization has to be managed to face pressures of climate change". Excerpts below:
"The resilience of a city is its ability to persevere in the face of emergency, so it can continue ...
China plans an ambitious alternative to grey urban expanses. This City Lab article explains:
"... News reports of fatal floods come as regularly to city dwellers as the annual monsoon season... water has become the nemesis of China’s 680 million urbanites, whose concrete landscape wa...