In the lately is the flooding of the Mississippi in Iowa, now Missouri. These 500 or 100 year floods come more frequently now and begs the question, not "is our infrastructure big, strong and good enough?"....but is our infrastructure not resilient enough? When dealing with mother nature the only person we have to blame is ourselves. Pushing back the waters, preventing the waters from entering and steering the waters at our own whim, is outdated and as shown as recently in 1993 and now in 2008, a failure.
How can our cities and towns along major water bodies (especially inland rivers) reflect urbanistically that they are actually on a river? Current typologies (urban, planning, architecture) of river towns are just like any Midwestern town. How can topography of town allow the influx of water? How can the architecture of river towns accept the water (floating, stilts, anchored)? How can bridges serve more than just transport infrastructure?
(Image from www.boston.com/news/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/us/20flood.html?hp
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