Apocalyptic Urbanism
2001.10.04 16:18

Catastrophic urbanism might be a better term, and indeed New Orleans during and post hurricane Katrina provides an ample textbook on the subject. Pockets of civilization may well succumb to catatrophes, but the rest of civilization does just go on. At least that's the situation now, and probably for some time to come. Even the Great Tsunami 2004 had widespread effect, but still on only a small portion of civilization at large.

It's probably more worthwhile to contemplate catastrophic urbanism than to conjecture apocalyptic urbanism.

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