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CLIMATOPOLIS: HOW OUR CITIES WILL THRIVE IN THE HOTTER FUTURE Matthew E. Kahn (New York: Basic Books, 2010), 288 pages.
Climatopolis, by Matthew Kahn, professor at UCLA's Institute of the Environment, is a provocative and, at times, humorous book about how the world's cities will cope with a hotter future. Citing the UN prediction that 60 percent of the world's population will be living in cities by 2030, along with recent macroeconomic trends indicating increases in the world population, per-capita income...