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Architecture
Your city does not flood because it rained more. It floods because the water has nowhere left to go.
The same rainfall that a city absorbed thirty years ago now puts it under water. Very little of that is about the sky. Here is the hydrology of urban flooding — runoff, design storms, lost wetlands — and why building bigger drains often makes it worse.
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Architecture
How buildings stay cool without air conditioning
Long before air conditioning, buildings in hot climates stayed liveable through geometry, mass and airflow alone. Here is how passive cooling works, and why architects are returning to it.
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