Um...obviously yes? Though I might disagree with some bits like
> true resilience also requires genuine public involvement in city planning and decision-making.
- which will be very culture- and situation-dependent.
Related: I've kinda wondered whether the local culture around this month's Central Texas Floods was so broken that the locals really couldn't bootstrap some sort of warning system. (That ain't rocket science: "It's up 15 feet! Call anybody you know downstream, and tell them to start pounding on doors of everybody living close to the river!") Or, is that just not the sort of narrative that my usual news sources want to sell?
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 9.5 ms ] thread> true resilience also requires genuine public involvement in city planning and decision-making.
- which will be very culture- and situation-dependent.
Related: I've kinda wondered whether the local culture around this month's Central Texas Floods was so broken that the locals really couldn't bootstrap some sort of warning system. (That ain't rocket science: "It's up 15 feet! Call anybody you know downstream, and tell them to start pounding on doors of everybody living close to the river!") Or, is that just not the sort of narrative that my usual news sources want to sell?