A Tale of Two Cities: A Global North & South Case Study in Resilience
Cities 1.514 Nov 2023

A Tale of Two Cities: A Global North & South Case Study in Resilience

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”: the first line of the Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities is an idea that the two cities featured in this episode’s case study know all too well. The Global South’s Nairobi, Kenya and the Global North’s Rotterdam in the Netherlands are half a world apart, but they’re each facing similar and equally dire climate consequences that are caused by and a threat to the major economic driver of import and export in their cities. But in the...

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