It stands as evidence that climate change is no longer a technological problem, but rather an ideological one, rooted in culture and politics.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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