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Bangkok is sinking. So are Jakarta, New Orleans, Manila, Ho Chi Minh City, and dozens of other delta metropolises around the world. Thai landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom likes to joke that her version of a climate-change photo isn’t a melting glacier — it’s a crocodile swimming down a flooded Bangkok street. The joke points to something deadly serious: a city of 15 million people, built on a soft river delta, is losing its fight against water. Voraakhom has spent the last decade turning that fight into her life’s work, and her career offers something rarer than a warning about climate change — a working demonstration of what a real solution looks like, built one park at a time. Drawing on her design philosophy and projects, along with current research and comparable efforts from around the world, this article explains why her approach — reintroducing absorbent, “amphibious” landscape into dense cities — is quickly becoming one of the most credible strategies available for surviving a wetter, hotter century.

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