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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极端城市：气候变化时代城市生活的危险与前景
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2017
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A. Dawson
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《极限城市》的故事开始于 2012 年超级风暴桑迪对纽约大都市区的大部分地区造成的破坏。这场风暴是二十一世纪美国的关键环境事件之一，它向数百万人揭示了城市生活的脆弱性和脆弱性，即使是在世界上最富裕的城市。如果风暴造成的损失最严重的地方最初是由纯粹的地质因素决定的——洪水区地区受到的打击最严重——那么它很快就暴露了富人和穷人之间的巨大鸿沟将如何影响救援工作。曼哈顿市中心遭受重创，但几天之内生活就恢复了相对正常。在同样地势低洼但富裕程度明显较低的社区，例如布鲁克林的红钩区或皇后区的洛克威区，救援工作由“占领华尔街”活动人士带头，但在很大程度上被官方救援机构忽视。人们连续数周断电，许多人无家可归，或被困在高层公共住房建筑中，无法获得自来水或电力。
Extreme Cities begins, appropriately enough, in the midst of Superstorm Sandy’s devastation of much of the New York metropolitan area in 2012. One of the pivotal environmental events in the twenty-first-century United States, this storm revealed to millions the fragility and tenuity of urban life, even in the richest city in the world. If where the storm inflicted the most damage was initially determined by purely geological factors—the areas in flood zones were hit hardest—it quickly exposed how the gaping chasm between the haves and have-nots would impact relief efforts. Downtown Manhattan was pummeled, but life returned to relative normalcy there within a few days. In similarly low-lying but significantly less wealthy neighborhoods, such as Red Hook in Brooklyn or the Rockaways in Queens, relief efforts were spearheaded by Occupy Wall Street activists and largely ignored by official relief agencies. People remained without power for weeks, and many were left homeless, or stranded in high-rise public housing buildings without access to running water or electricity.