Shifting elemental bodies in the city: Towards thermal and daylight justice
通过德里和伦敦的案例,研究热舒适与日光暴露的不对称脆弱性,呼吁在气候变化的城市中关注社会分层与宜居性,推动热与日光正义。
While thermal comfort and daylight exposure are subjective and context specific, and in some cases even counterpoised, we show how individual and communal efforts to reduce exposure (in the case of heat) or increase exposure (in the case of sunlight) center the elemental as a point of struggle for just urban living and citizenship. The two examples of Delhi and London that we present demonstrate how heat and daylight are encountered in the face of changing climate realities and top-down planning and housing development. With a focus on the asymmetrical vulnerabilities of exposure within thermal and luminous milieu, we contribute to calls for urban justice amidst rapidly changing and unstable climatic futures that demand pressing attention to urban social stratification and livability.