by Alexis Madrigal
New
York, and every other city, was built with certain climactic baselines
in mind. This much rain, this much snow, this much heat, this many
floods. They form a core set of assumptions about the kind of
infrastructure the city needs. Institutions grow up around that set of
givens; they are a fixed point in the otherwise tumultuous process of
urban governance. Maps are created
showing the 100-year flood zones; they show the places that have a one-percent chance of being flooded in any given year.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/2-3-of-sandy-damaged-homes-in-ny-were-outside-the-100-year-flood-zone/266046/
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