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The Interval at Long Now welcomes <A TITLE="Eric Klinenberg" HREF="http://www.ericklinenberg.com" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noreferrer nofollow">Eric Klinenberg</A> (sociologist & author, NYU; fellow at <A TITLE="Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University" HREF="http://casbs.stanford.edu/" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow">CASBS</A> at Stanford) 
<H3>Climate Change and the Future of Cities</H3>
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk will start 7:30pm sharp at <A HREF="http://theinterval.org" REL="nofollow">The Interval at Long Now</A> 
Eric's book <A TITLE="Heat Wave by Eric Klinenberg" HREF="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226443221/" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noreferrer nofollow">Heat Wave</A> will be on sale and he will be signing after the talk.
What qualities help assure that a community can survive the threat of disaster? The population density of cities leads to inherent vulnerabilities to mass climate disasters: such as single point of failure transit systems and utilities built prior to today's environmental realities. At the same time the resources of cities offer tremendous potential for preparation and innovation.
As a sociologist, Klinenberg brings insights on how neighborhood dynamics (what he calls "social infrastructure") can help individuals & communities prepare for extreme weather including flooding and heat waves. He'll discuss how cities can be wiser and think more long-term by planning traditional infrastructure projects which also enable such social infrastructure in their design. 
By the end of Heat Wave, Klinenberg has traced the lines of culpability in dozens of directions, drawing a dense and subtle portrait of exactly what happened during that week in July. Malcolm Gladwell, in The New Yorker
This event is co-presented by the <A TITLE="Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences" HREF="http://www.casbs.org" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow">Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS)</A>, where Eric is currently a fellow working on the social science of climate change with a focus on mitigation and adaptation in an urban context. 
<A TITLE="The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University" HREF="https://casbs.stanford.edu/" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow"><IMG STYLE="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" TITLE="The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University" ALT="The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University" SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/68364837/casbslogoweb.jpg"></IMG></A> Since 01954 <A HREF="https://casbs.stanford.edu/" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow">CASBS</A> has been a preeminent national and international locus for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and transformative thinking and research on some of the most important challenges and issues. Its aim is discovery in the service of advancing social science methods, theories, and topics that address and answer socially significant questions. At the heart of the CASBS enterprise is its residential fellowship program, which attracts the finest minds from psychology, sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, and related disciplines. 
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<A HREF="http://www.ericklinenberg.com" REL="nofollow">Eric Klinenberg</A> is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He is the author of <A TITLE="Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone" HREF="https://www.amazon.com/Going-Solo-Extraordinary-Surprising-Appeal/dp/0143122770" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noreferrer nofollow">Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone</A> (The Penguin Press, 2012), <A TITLE="Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media" HREF="https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Air-Battle-Control-Americas/dp/1437974155" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noreferrer nofollow">Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media</A> (Metropolitan Books, 2007), and <A TITLE="Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago" HREF="https://www.amazon.com/Heat-Wave-Autopsy-Disaster-Chicago/dp/022627618X/" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noreferrer nofollow">Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago</A> (University of Chicago Press, 2002), as well as the editor of <A TITLE="Cultural Production in a Digital Age" HREF="https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Production-Digital-American-Political/dp/1412916909" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noreferrer nofollow">Cultural Production in a Digital Age</A>.
His scholarly work has been published in journals including the American Sociological Review, Theory and Society, and Ethnography, and he has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Time Magazine, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, The Washington Post, Slate, Le Monde Diplomatique, The London Review of Books, and the radio program, This American Life.
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