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Extreme cities

The peril and promise of urban life in the age of climate change

by LINTON J
Published in July 2018 - Page 35

Ashley Dawson
Verso, Brooklyn, NY, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78478-036-4.

“If today’s cities are one of the major drivers of climate change, they are also its principal victims. The storms of climate chaos are already breaking on human shores, and their devastation is most apparent in the planet’s coastal megacities, where vulnerable infrastructures, massive economic resources, and human populations are concentrated in unprecedented quantities. The city is paradoxically the greatest expression, principal culprit, and most

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