Urban Climate Adaptation

Student Work

For the Photo Exercise I: Imagining a Resilient City assignment, students found or created two images; one reflecting urban vulnerability, the other urban resilience.

URBAN VULNERABILITY	URBAN RESILIENCY
London flooded	Floating town in the Netherlands
MIT’s campus near Charles River floodplain	Floating town in Belen, Peru (Image courtesy of an MIT student. Used with permission.)
Drought in Qinghai Province, western China	Community garden in Philadelphia
Flooding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina	Floating New Orleans
The following two pictures represent both urban vulnerability and urban resiliency. (Images courtesy of Julia Tierney. Used with permission.)
Pipes around building #1	Pipes around building #2