ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/1186646/making-room-for-water-floodable-parks-in-latin-america Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:00:00 +0000 Daniela Andino https://www.archdaily.com/1186646/making-room-for-water-floodable-parks-in-latin-america Walk along a river in almost any Latin American city and you will find stretches that have been straightened, lined with concrete, buried beneath roads, or pushed behind industrial areas and residential neighborhoods. Throughout the twentieth century, urban expansion gradually occupied riverbanks and former floodplains, while waterways were redirected or confined within infrastructure intended to control them. Yet the water continued to return. For decades, flooding has been the most frequent natural disaster in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the Inter-American Development Bank.

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