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Opinion What cities of the future might look like

How an urban climate-adaptation designer thinks about her job.

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Illustrated by Maya Scarpa for The Washington Post. Beatrix Lockwood spoke to Kristina Hill, an associate professor at University of California at Ber...more
Illustrated by Maya Scarpa for The Washington Post. Beatrix Lockwood spoke to Kristina Hil...more

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How can cities of the future withstand a warming planet? Kristina Hill, an associate professor at the University of California at Berkeley and the head of the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, works with California officials to imagine more resilient communities. Her work addresses questions about what we should preserve, what we should replace and what we can introduce to make our environment safer — and more beautiful.

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For the past year, we’ve been speaking with workers across the continent whose jobs did not exist a generation ago to learn more about our new era of work — and what it means for our future. In these comics, you’ll hear from workers, who describe in their own words what they do for a living and how it has changed over time.
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