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Can floating cities protect themselves from the rise of seas? The architect Koen Olthuis says it is time to live with water, not to fight it.
While climate change pushes sea level higher, the Dutch architect Koen Olthuis says that the answer is not higher dikes – they are floating cities. From luxury houses to the Netherlands to the durable floating schools in slums and whole island communities of the Maldives, its vision mixes architecture and adaptation. But can floating design really offer an inclusive solution-or will the rich remain dry? In this episode of Talk to Al JazeeraOlthuis explains why living on the water can be the only way to follow.
