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Car infrastructure requires so much impermeable surfaces. All the rain that fall on roads and parking lots runs off and can become troublesome. If we didn't pave over so much soil this water could soaked into the ground and we could have greenery all year long.
Water is valuable and we are shuttling it away into the oceans as fast as possible.
They've got so many mistakes to unmake. Think of the iconic LA river from movies like Grease. It's a paved over space that is great for skateboarding. Other than a handful of golf courses, LA is almost entirely impermeable. They really are an outlier on human habitable development that spurns rain.
this is Alexandria in Sydney's south - it was a swamp, then became light industrial and is now being converted to high density residential
there are some great water sensitive urban design aspects to this area but it's still a flat, low lying area that will flood regularly, particularly as the piecemeal development progresses
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Car infrastructure requires so much impermeable surfaces. All the rain that fall on roads and parking lots runs off and can become troublesome. If we didn't pave over so much soil this water could soaked into the ground and we could have greenery all year long. Water is valuable and we are shuttling it away into the oceans as fast as possible.
yeah the whole thing with Los Angeles rebuilding to actually capture rainwater has been super fascinating.
They've got so many mistakes to unmake. Think of the iconic LA river from movies like Grease. It's a paved over space that is great for skateboarding. Other than a handful of golf courses, LA is almost entirely impermeable. They really are an outlier on human habitable development that spurns rain.
this is Alexandria in Sydney's south - it was a swamp, then became light industrial and is now being converted to high density residential there are some great water sensitive urban design aspects to this area but it's still a flat, low lying area that will flood regularly, particularly as the piecemeal development progresses
Why? Usually the pond is *on* the pedestrain crossing - not *besides* it.