Life On the Edge: Four Visions For Inhabiting a World Transformed By Climate Change
Wake of the Flood Circa 2080, New Yorkers could live in some 600,000 modular apartments strung along structural cables and held in place by powerful electromagnets. The support cables would be attached to the city's existing skyscrapers. Kevin HandConceptual shelters that will protect us all from the perils of our rapidly changing environment: rising waters, extreme heat, rampant pollution and overpopulation Environmental disruptions and technological advances have always influenced where and how people live. Early humans may have left Africa after rapid fluctuations in rainfall destroyed their food supply, and the opening up of the American Southwest occurred roughly in parallel with improvements in air-conditioning technology. In the decades ahead, a warming planet and a booming population will again alter where we live and how we construct our homes. PROBLEM: RISING SEAS / SOLUTION: CITY(E)SCAPE DESIGNERS: MUSTAFA BULGUR AND SINAN GUNAY The most immediately disruptive force could be a rapid rise in...