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"To Jazzys excellent points, it seems incredibly wise to prepare for a world where power might become inconsistent becasue of the increasing frequency of extreme weather amongst other factors."

We dismissed full undergrounding of power lines due to cost. If there are going to be frequent enough weather events like this to justify discouraging tall buildings, or discouraging urban living in general (as Jazzy seems to imply) than maybe that dismissal was mistaken. Its hard for me to beleive that undergrounding urban power lines is going to be more costly than restricting the growth of cities in general.

I will also note that there were several deaths in the suburbs due to trees falling on houses and killing people, a subject Jazzy neglects. Focusing on urban heat island effects and on top floor effects while neglecting the dangers from falling trees, from driving where traffic lights are out, etc, seems less like a real concern with the problem, and more like an attempt to argue against cities per se.

by AWalkerInTheCity on Jul 9, 2012 10:06 am • link • report