Climate Change and the Role of Cities
Aliye P. Celik and Lance Jay Brown, FAIA
2023
Climate change represents an unprecedented threat to our future. Climate change includes global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Though there have been previous periods of climatic change, since the mid-20th century humans have had an unprecedented impact on Earth’s climate system and caused change on a global scale.