Infrastructure Lessons from the Big Sponge
October 2, 2018
The Big Apple—New York City—is becoming the Big Sponge as it adopts new types of infrastructure that will “flood by design” to cope with heavy rainfalls. The plans align with recommendations offered recently in Issues by three analysts who explored how the nation must ramp up the resiliency of its infrastructure—the technical components as well as the systems for managing them—to meet unprecedented extreme weather events expected with climate change.