Tingwei Xu and Xie Zhang, two students from UPenn, have heeded the call and come up with a design for the flooding that will apparently make Manhattan look like Venice around the year 2200. Their idea is for a gigantic membrane made from highly intelligent materials that can adapt to changing weather conditions to be installed throughout the lower lying parts of the city, rising up over the bases of buildings like webbing.
As opposed to rigid structures like levees, this "soft infrastructure" would absorb incoming flood waters with its "spongelike sidewalks, marshes and manmade islands.
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