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A new study projects that without action to curb global warming and adapt building practices to fire risk, roughly 300,000 US structures could burn in coming decades. The research indicates current wildfire damage trends will accelerate sharply if climate and policy trajectories remain unchanged.
In an interview with Nature, architect and MIT Senseable City Lab director Carlo Ratti discusses how climate change is forcing cities to adapt and how technology, including artificial intelligence, can support that redesign. He argues that despite the growing role of data and algorithms, citizens should ultimately decide how their cities are shaped, ahead of his appearance at the World Architecture Festival in Fort Lauderdale.
A geospatial artificial intelligence firm analyzed 72 of the world's largest cities to assess how well each is positioned to withstand climate-related risks such as heat, flooding, and extreme weather. The resulting ranking places some well-known cities in unexpectedly low or high positions relative to public perception.
A new report from AlphaGeo analyzing 72 major global cities through its Climate Risk & Resilience Index finds that raw physical climate exposure and actual resilience-adjusted risk diverge widely depending on adaptation policy. Cities like Ahmedabad, Dhaka, Kolkata and Lahore combine severe exposure with only moderate adaptive capacity, while cities such as Chicago, Paris, Barcelona and Nairobi rank among the most resilient despite facing real climate threats. Chinese cities including Beijing, Tianjin, Shenzhen and Shanghai stand out for converting high exposure into comparatively low residual risk through strong adaptation measures.