Climate Change and the Future of Cities – Institute for Public Knowledge

Please join the Institute for Public Knowledge for an event to celebrate the release of a special issue of the journal Public Culture, “Climate Change and the Future of Cities: Migration, Adaptation, and Social Change on an Urban Planet.” The evening will feature a panel discussion with issue contributors Daniel Aldana Cohen, Nina Berman, Gökçe Günel, Eric Klinenberg, Liz Koslov, and Andy Lakoff, followed by a reception.

The special issue of Public Culture includes essays by Eric Klinenberg, Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer, Andrew Lakoff, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Gökçe Günel, Valeria Procupez, Liz Koslov, Austin Zeiderman, and Jerome Whitington, a photo essay from Colin Jerolmack and Nina Berman, and interviews with experts from Rebuild by Design’s international working group, including Henk Ovink, Mindy Fullilove, Edgar Pieterse, Fernando de Mello Franco, and Maarten Hajer. This exciting collection represents the culmination of years of international research and collaboration on the impacts of climate change in cities, and was produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. The entire special issue is available free online for a limited time.

Free and open to the public, registration required. For more information about this event and to register, please visit the Institute for Public Knowledge website.