Beyond sponge parks to a sponge city
Experts say we need to go beyond sponge parks and turn Montreal into a sponge city if we want to avoid the periodic flooding of buildings and roads like we saw on Sunday.
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DeWolf 11:03 on 2025-07-16 Permalink
« Les saillies de trottoir doivent toutes être drainantes, puis il faut utiliser les stationnements, les grands toits des édifices pour récupérer les eaux. Même les ruelles, qui représentent beaucoup d’espace, il faudrait dès que possible y arracher l’asphalte, casser le béton et remplir ça de verdure. »
Sounds good to me.
Chris 14:27 on 2025-07-17 Permalink
Designing our cities around the automobile has got to be the biggest mistake of the 20th century. Sigh.
MarcG 10:20 on 2025-07-18 Permalink
“Biggest mistake of the 20th century” is a category with some stiff competition.