Elizabeth Mossop . Articles Not 'if', but 'when': city planners need to design for flooding. These examples show the way As the current New South Wales flooding highlights, it’s not enough to continue to build cities and towns based on business-as-usual planning principles — especially as these disasters tend to disproportionately affect disadvantaged populations, increasing inequality in Australia. I lived through Hurricane Katrina and helped design the rebuild – floods will always come, but we can build better to prepare As the climate changes, floods and extreme rainfall events will become more intense. In many cases, the most disadvantaged people are at highest risk from floods and least able to bounce back when their homes and businesses are inundated. The PM wants to fast-track mega-projects for pandemic recovery. Here's why that’s a bad idea Our governments are committing taxpayers to further debt as part of a planned recovery from the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. Infrastructure spending is great for economic stimulus, but it has to be the right kind of infrastructure.
