Stilt homes can be found along the Gulf Coast and up and down the Atlantic coast. Stilt houses, houseboats, and floating homes are forms of vernacular architecture.

The idea of a sponge city is “…to allow the natural flow to come back”; to use natural features, wetlands, floodplains to work like sponges, absorbing, filtering, and retaining rainwater instead of quickly draining it away.

The Netherlands has been battling the sea for centuries. The flood disaster of 1953 prompted the Delta Works. The same flood led to the Thames Barrier….