We are all already living in a planetary city, a distributed mega structure hiding in plain sight.

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

The future is broken and we are left stranded in the long now, doomscrolling idly, waiting out the end of the end of the world.

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

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

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

Seminal biologist Edward O Wilson has written on his “Half Earth” proposal, an “achievable plan” to stave off mass extinction by devoting half the surface of the earth completely to nature.

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?

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