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What Next: Cities’ Wetter, Wilder Future
FromSlate News
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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Jan 23, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
California going from drought-to-downpour this month was a vivid illustration of the future we’re facing: with more dramatic weather in a warmer, wetter climate. But how can cities—built for a world where hundred-year floods happened only once a century—adjust to a new reality?
Guest: Henry Grabar, staff writer for Slate, author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World.
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Guest: Henry Grabar, staff writer for Slate, author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World.
If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Amicus—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work.
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Released:
Jan 23, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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