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Barrier reefs that restore fish habitats, terraced waterfronts sporting bike paths – these flood-mitigating ideas, which teams led by BIG, OMA, West 8 and more have dreamed up for the Rebuild by Design competition, also give a lot back to the people.

The $500-billion hurricane hasn’t arrived yet, but weather experts agree that it’s on its way. We look at firms around the world, including Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Turenscape and Weiss/Manfredi, making cities ready for climate change.

New York’s park in the sky has inspired similar schemes to bring public space back to the public, even if it means – as in the case of Thomas Heatherwick’s Garden Bridge concept for London – conjuring it out of thin air.

Bjarke Ingels Group proposes a soaring timber-clad structure for Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6.

Architect, author and ecology artist Fritz Haeg is well known for his “edible estates” that replace front lawns with vegetable gardens. The final instalment of the ongoing project has landed in Minneapolis.

For a hospital in Malawi, designers Luc van Hoeckel and Pim van Baarsen transform a parking lot into a playground using recycled materials.

Place des Festivals, an outdoor space for the arts in Montreal, by Daoust Lestage.

Call him a Renaissance man. Or maybe a hippie. Either way, Fritz Haeg won’t mind.

Despite its cheeky name, Grow Op at the Gladstone Hotel presents innovative landscape concepts – by ERA Architects, designer Ryan Taylor, and other creatives – that bow to nature.

An earthquake-ravaged medieval tower in Umbria, Italy, is reimagined with a dramatic steel spine.