Coda

The coda offers a provisional response the question posed by the conclusion by reflecting on the surge of urban climate change politics in Bogotá in the time since the research for the book was conducted. In some ways this recent development represents an expansion of established approaches to governing risk and security, only now under a different name, suggesting that what the book has called the endangered city may remain a condition of urban government, politics, and everyday life for the foreseeable future. However, if the world has indeed entered a new historical age, as scientists, philosophers, and social theorists are claiming, in which the ecological impact of humans is now felt on a planetary scale, then what we find in Bogotá may also point to the possibility that new urban visions may emerge from within the politics of the Anthropocene.