These images show some of the coolest designs to keep floodwaters at bay
Architects have proposed remodeling walkways around Quebec’s rivers to better manage floodwaters, and they have suggested installing a bike path, shown above, to encourage people to exercise. (White Arkitekter Oslo/)This story originally featured on Nexus Media NewsArchitect Ruurd Gietema lives in The Netherlands, a country perennially trying to hold back the sea. He says his homeland has paid a price for the high dikes and tall dunes it built to thwart rising waters and prevent flooding.“Protection was a high priority, but landscapes were erased,” Gietema says.This fact is not lost on today’s architects and urban planners, who are thinking about how to protect other cities from more intense rainfall and rising seas. Their aim is to build flood-resilient structures that don’t destroy the landscape but preserve it—not just in the Netherlands, but around the world.“Instead of working against nature, we’ve begun to work with it,” says Gietema, who is from...