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    Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change
    Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change
    Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change
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    Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change

    Written by Ashley Dawson

    Narrated by L.J. Ganser

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    How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the lion's share of carbon to the atmosphere, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea levels. Today, the majority of the world's megacities are located in coastal zones, yet few of them are adequately prepared for the floods that will increasingly menace their shores. Instead, most continue to develop luxury waterfront condos for the elite and industrial facilities for corporations. These not only intensify carbon emissions, but also place coastal residents at greater risk when water levels rise.

    In Extreme Cities, Dawson offers an alarming portrait of the future of our cities, describing the efforts of Staten Island, New York, and Shishmareff, Alaska residents to relocate; Holland's models for defending against the seas; and the development of New York City before and after Hurricane Sandy. Our best hope lies not with fortified sea walls, he argues. Rather, it lies with urban movements already fighting to remake our cities in a more just and equitable way.

    As much a harrowing study as a call to arms, Extreme Cities is a must-listen for anyone concerned with the threat of global warming, and of the cities of the world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJan 30, 2018
    ISBN9781977373885
    Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change
    Author

    Ashley Dawson

    Ashley Dawson is Professor of Postcolonial Studies in the English Department at the Graduate Center / City University of New York and the College of Staten Island (CSI). His latest books  include People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons (O/R), Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change (Verso), and Extinction: A Radical History (O/R).

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    • 1/5
      Not about extreme cities, just one man's guilt complex and New York (the greatest of cities on the planet which the author will remind you of many, many times). Brain dead tirade about how everything and everyone are evil.
    • 4/5
      An interesting, very dense book that examines urban landscapes as frontlines for climate disaster.