Planet City

Carbon removal or carbon drawdown is widely recognised as a requirement.

Managed retreat is ‘the strategic relocation of structures or abandonment of land to manage natural hazard risk’.

A third part of the work involves carbon capture and geological injection underground, into rock formations where it can be stored safely for millennia.

the path towards Planet City runs through political revolution. The paradox of Planet City is that at the current rate of social change, by the time the need for Planet City has fully dawned, the political and financial capacity to build it may be too far eroded to realise it.

Warehouses, department stores, strip malls, airports and all the rest are ‘an increasingly complex network of interlocking carbon forms’.

Difficult decisions about who pays and who receives support would inspire difficult conversations about past injustices and current inequalities.

if there is one element that recurs and stands out for cities, it is the making and using of vertical options.

to address climate change, an active restoration is needed.

Planet City may be more generative if we consider it to be a temporary destination. What if it was a place to retreat to while giving time for carbon removal and regeneration, while actively restoring the climate?