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TED Talks Society and Culture

How to transform sinking cities into landscapes that fight floods | Kotchakorn Voraakhom

TED Talks Society and Culture

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4.1794 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2019

⏱️ ? minutes

Summary

From London to Tokyo, climate change is causing cities to sink -- and our modern concrete infrastructure is making us even more vulnerable to severe flooding, says landscape architect and TED Fellow Kotchakorn Voraakhom. But what if we could design cities to help fight floods? In this inspiring talk, Voraakhom shows how she developed a massive park in Bangkok that can hold a million gallons of rainwater, calling for more climate change solutions that connect cities back to nature.

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