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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Planet City is built entirely from sustainable technologies that are already here, but that just lack the cultural investment or political will to implement them at scale.

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.

to address climate change, an active restoration is needed.