Urban Climate Change Crossroads

Urban climate change is a crossroads in two very different senses. One is historical. With the world now more than half urban and given the ecological consequences of the world's high-consumption urban centers we are at an ecological crossroad. We either head off the worst of ecological collapse through concerted and forward-looking action or we face a 'Mad Max future' of dystopia violence and upheaval. The second crossroad is intellectual. Our individual disciplines are unable to grasp the mag...See More