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city planners need to design for flooding. These examples show the way

  • Written by Elizabeth Mossop, Dean of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney

As the current New South Wales flooding highlights, it’s not enough to continue to build cities and towns based on business-as-usual planning principles — especially as these disasters tend to disproportionately affect disadvantaged populations, increasing inequality in Australia.

We need to design our urban spaces around the idea that...

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