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 |
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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 | |
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 |