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523 Radical Adaptation to Climate Change Radical urban adaptation to climate change must be dispersive, reparative, nonnormative, and, physically deconstructive. Stone, B. (2024). Radical adaptation: Transforming cities for a climate changed world. Cambridge University Press. Sources: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/radical-adaptation/reviews/CA915D793DF2F7FF34CCEA3BFBC7553F https://medium.com/@stoneenvironmental/radical-adaptation-unlearning-how-to-plan-a-city-76054122bed4 Just beneath the surface of our cities is a second, shadow city that makes urban life possible: the array of storm sewer tunnels under our streets, the buried powerlines transporting our electricity, the pipes instantaneously delivering drinking water to our homes from a long distant treatment facility. These massive municipal infrastructures render cities habitable. No longer able to safely draw drinking water from our own wells, we must purify it at a centralized public works facility. No longer able to i ………………………………