"Extreme Weather and the Energy Metabolism of the City"
The author uses a critical realist perspective to investigate relations between social constructions and the dynamics of nature.
The author uses a critical realist perspective to investigate relations between social constructions and the dynamics of nature.
This film examines the life of a German town some decades after a nuclear plant inspired nationwide resistance.
This film examines the limitations and contradictions of finding safe places for nuclear waste storage.
Earthquakes occur along fault lines, sometimes with disastrous effects. These disturbances can significantly influence urban development, as seen in the aftermath of two earthquakes in Italy. Fault Lines follows the history of these places before and after their destruction, explores plans and developments that preceded the disasters, and the urbanism that emerged from the ruins.
Der gezähmte Prometheus traces large fire catastrophes and the rise of the insurance business from its beginnings in fifteenth century Europe to its boom in nineteenth century globalized metropoles across the world.
A map of the 1974 flood in Brisbane, Australia.
Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev’s painting of Karuselnaya square (now Teatralnaya square) during the 1824 flood.
This painting by Leander Russ depicts a rescue operation during a flood in Vienna in 1847.
Through ethnographic fieldwork in southern Lebanon, Vasiliki Touhouliotis examines the 2006 Lebanon-Israeli war’s environmental impact.