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Redesigning Cities for the Climate Crisis

Kwame Mensah

Urban planner and climate policy researcher at the University of Cape Town, specializing in sustainable urban development in the Global South.

February 25, 2026·11 min read

Urban Futures

Cities are both major contributors to climate change and its most vulnerable victims. But they are also the sites of the most innovative responses to the crisis, from green infrastructure to circular economy initiatives to radical experiments in urban governance.

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