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    Chinese Landscape Architect Kongjian Yu, Champion of “Sponge Cities” Concept for Addressing Climate Change Accelerated Urban Flooding, Wins 2023 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize

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Gardening the City

May 15, 2013
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Philadelphia is living through a golden age of park-building and landscape improvements.

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