Sponge Cities: Emerging Approaches, Challenges and Opportunities

Primarily as a response to increasing flood, impacts, the Chinese Central Government launched a program to implement the Sponge City Concept in selected pilot cities across China in 2013. As a result, the Sponge City Concept is gaining ground and becoming more and more accepted by city governments....

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Main Author: Dafang Fu (Ed.) (auth)
Other Authors: Chris Zevenbergen (Ed.) (auth), Assela Pathirana (Ed.) (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
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