Brian Stone Jr. is a professor in the School of City and Regional Planning and director of the Urban Climate Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His most recent book is “Radical Adaptation: Transforming Cities for a Climate Changed World” (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
Why do we keep rebuilding (and subsidizing) areas that are all but certain to flood again, to burn again, to fall into the ocean? It’s time to rethink climate adaptat...
