> true resilience also requires genuine public involvement in city planning and decision-making.
- which will be very culture- and situation-dependent.
Related: I've kinda wondered whether the local culture around this month's Central Texas Floods was so broken that the locals really couldn't bootstrap some sort of warning system. (That ain't rocket science: "It's up 15 feet! Call anybody you know downstream, and tell them to start pounding on doors of everybody living close to the river!") Or, is that just not the sort of narrative that my usual news sources want to sell?
Also admittedly - the context often included "and tell them to call the Fire Dept.".
But I'd say that whether or not one does that goes back to the article's main point - do you see see those neighbors as fellow members of "your" community? Or as unconnected random strangers?
klooney•6mo ago
bell-cot•6mo ago
Vs. the uber-secret Manhattan Project had 4+ Soviet spies inside its "Top Secret" tent right from the start - all for ideological reasons.
IAmBroom•6mo ago
And a couple were only recently uncovered.