To enhance the competitiveness and resiliency of a city, climate smart development must be planned. It simply mean how to utilize the natural phenomenon to the best use or to shape the way how to avoid extreme weather from impacting the city development. For example, increasing the area of green coverage is not only about preserving bio-diversity but rather another measure of absorbing large quantity of rain water runoff due to increase of rainfall intensity. To me, this is climate smart development. Similarly, green building innovation of making roof top garden and planting on top of the roof for cooling effect, vertical planting at the fencing area, recycling the heat resulting from the air con motor for water heating purpose are other examples of climate smart measures. These mitigation actions responding to climate change will help enhancing the competitiveness of a city.
For the city with natural disaster occurrence, adaptation in avoiding any big damage and loss of property as well as quick returning to the normal life after myth is the order of the day. In order to do so, climate smart design for development is essential. For example, loading factor withstand the effect of earthquake and solid embankment for structure near to the drainage system and etc are example of fine adaptation.
In this respect, designers and city managers have to adopt and adapt to the climate smart design and management, I presume. This requires out of box thinking and innovation.
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