Modern cities may suffer from annual rain and flooding due to wrong city architecture and wrong city planning.
Khmer villages with houses on stilts are all safe during annual rainy season. Cities however are flooeded and may suffer annual damage and loss due to wrong city planning and wesern style houses.
A traditional Khmer house on stilts is fully integrated into the rainy season environment. People have adapted and all houses are safe and dry, while the rising water can freely flow through the entire village without causing any damage at all.
In modern cities however the western style houses and roads all resist or block the free flow of water and thus western style cities cause damage to nature and nature causes damage to wrong houses!
Smart people learn from nature - while intelligent people try to teach nature.
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