Photo: Jan Malý, Czech Radio
Prague is already feeling the effects of a warming climate, particularly during increasingly intense summer heat waves. Jan Richter, a climate change adaptation specialist at Prague City Hall, believes the answer lies partly beneath our feet: giving trees enough underground space, retaining rainwater and bringing more vegetation into even the historic centre. In this episode of Czechast, he also explains how a Fulbright scholarship in the United States and the urban farms of Detroit helped shape his ideas about the resilient city of the future.
Jan Richter has spent much of his professional life thinking about how cities can provide a good quality of life without exceeding the limits of the natural environment.
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Author: Vít Pohanka