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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Jessica R. Cattelino Beyond “diversity,” activists, scholars, and administrators increasingly turn to “climate” as a way of describing the often-inchoate feelings and (re) productive processes that constitute a world, including with reference to racial and gender justice on American college...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 45–75.
Published: 01 January 2020
... as “climate refugees”—running from climate stress. These emigrants and their families, however, rarely mention the weather as a cause of their plight at home or their decisions to leave. They are fleeing abusive policies, exposure to markets, debt peonage, failures of social security systems and a sense...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 291–315.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Gökçe Günel This article examines the discourses and practices of climate change adaptation in the Arabian Peninsula. It suggests that climate change adaptation projects in the region are often attempts at reframing water-related challenges that are already present, regardless of the effects...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 187–192.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., the city also became a leader in planning for climate change, issuing high-profile reports about adaptation and mitigation and beginning the process of making the city more weather-resistant. In August 2011, New York City braced itself for the arrival of a severe storm system, Hurricane Irene...
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Published: 01 January 2017
Figure 15 Aladar and Victor Olgyay, “Bioclimatic Registration of Climate Data” and “Timetable of Climatic Needs.” From Olgyay and Olgyay, Solar Control and Shading Devices (1957). Reproduced with permission More
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Published: 01 January 2017
Figure 21 Screen shot from the climate design software Ecotect, now owned by Autodesk. Courtesy of Amrita Ghosh More
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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 2 Singapore’s water system as a semiclosed loop. Note that the two “climate-independent taps” are at the symbolic center of the circle meant to bypass rainfall and storm water management as natural variables. Illustration by the author based on Public Utilities Board 2014a. More
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 389–413.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Austin Zeiderman This essay foregrounds the political constituencies assembling around the problem of climate change in cities. Recent experiments in urban climate governance in Bogotá, Colombia, are shown to challenge liberal democratic notions of the “public” by linking a redistributive economic...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 415–441.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Figure 2 Singapore’s water system as a semiclosed loop. Note that the two “climate-independent taps” are at the symbolic center of the circle meant to bypass rainfall and storm water management as natural variables. Illustration by the author based on Public Utilities Board 2014a. ...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 393–403.
Published: 01 September 2023
... commitments to climate governance. Initially conceived by political leaders advising on disaster risk reduction at a 2013 UN General Assembly meeting, the IDF recognizes financial institutions, practices, and devices as integral to addressing climate change. Through its activities and investments in an open...
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (1 (102)): 17–45.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Ayala Levin Abstract This essay is concerned with how architecture was imagined to mediate tropical climate in the interest of forming productive postcolonial national subjects. It charts a transition in approach from late colonial to postcolonial modernist architecture as it was exemplified...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 129–164.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Figure 15 Aladar and Victor Olgyay, “Bioclimatic Registration of Climate Data” and “Timetable of Climatic Needs.” From Olgyay and Olgyay, Solar Control and Shading Devices (1957). Reproduced with permission ...
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Published: 01 January 2017
Figure 13 Aladar and Victor Olgyay, “Method of Climatic Interpretation in Housing.” From Olgyay and Olgyay, Solar Control and Shading Devices (1957). Robert Geddes Papers. Reproduced with permission of Princeton University More
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 18 Victor and Aladar Olgyay, Application of Climatic Data to House Design (1954), cover image. Reproduced in David Leatherbarrow and Richard Wesley, “Performance and Style in the Work of Olgyay and Olgyay,” Arq 18, no. 2 (2014): 170. The images are also juxtaposed in Aladar and Victor More
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 359–387.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Liz Koslov Retreat, or relocating people and unbuilding land in places vulnerable to flooding and sea level rise, remains on the fringes of conversations about climate change adaptation. Yet already people throughout the world are moving away from the water en masse. Many more want to move but lack...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 177–189.
Published: 01 May 2023
... also linked this area in the US South to decolonizing efforts in the Global South just prior to a neoliberal turn. Within these networks, victims of white supremacy modeled approaches to survival that are now broadly relevant to today's social and climate justice work. The story offers spatial tools...
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 11 “Heat exchange between man and surroundings.” Victor Olgyay, Design with Climate: Bioclimatic Approach to Architectural Regionalism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1963), 16. More
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 281–300.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Robert P. Marzec; Allison Carruth Robert P. Marzec and Allison Carruth discuss climate change, environmental justice, and postcolonial studies with scholar and public intellectual Rob Nixon. RN: You’re right, that is a risk. We cannot rely solely on sensation-driven representations, but can any...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (3 (65)): 541–549.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Gökçe Günel Arguably serving as a cenotaph for the fourteenth-century explorer, Dubai’s Ibn Battuta Mall constitutes an insular space for which history, geography, and climate have been produced. This essay studies the spatial strategies used and represented therein and argues that the building...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 221–237.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Faisal Devji Abstract This article argues that the global emergence of children at the forefront of causes from climate change to education reveals a contradiction at the heart of politics. If politics is defined by the making of a future, the children who are meant to be its heirs are crucial...