Urban Climate Adaptation

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Informal water connections: vulnerability and resiliency. Informal water connections: vulnerability and resiliency. A floating town in Belen Peru that is built on the flood plain. All homes are built on rafts and float during the wet season. The Aspen Farms Community Garden in West Philadelphia, PA is an example of urban resiliency, the organizational and productive energy of people living in a difficult environment of flooding and landfill subsidence amid poverty and crime. The city of Xining in Qinghai Province, western China is an example of urban vulnerability, a city on the great Yellow River, which now faces long-term drought and severe over-withdrawal.