Intertidal City

= cities and urban neighborhoods under threat of the sea rise and climate change, which accept their 'temporary' condition

Description

Keith Parkins:

"What if ʻmeanwhileʼ became a permanent condition? What if everyone knew this place was going to be underwater some day, and everything was done for ʻthe momentʼ, with full awareness of its (and our own) mortality? Perhaps the thin blue line should be seen not as threatening a status quo, but as defining — and defending — a new territory. A liminal zone, a wild frontier, a floating world. The Free State of Meanwhile. The Intertidal City.

I am not talking about planned retreat, mitigation or adaptation. Those concepts imply the continuance of business-as-usual by whatever means necessary. While government and industry build costly — and ultimately futile — sea defences, shift to higher ground, or simply cut their losses and flee, the intertidal city will play host to a different project: a cultural transformation of the relationship between human beings and the sea." (https://medium.com/dark-mountain/thin-blue-line-sea-level-rise-and-the-new-intertidal-city-e07ccaab83ee)