Yi-Fu Tuan Geography Lecture Series

The European heat wave of 2003 represents the worst natural disaster in modern French history. Keller investigates the importance of place to the shaping of the disaster’s outcomes. He explores spatial dimensions of vulnerability by investigating intersections of precarious housing, social isolation, and vertical dimension of risk, and argues that the architecture of contemporary Paris has rendered certain populations effectively invisible, and placed them at high risk in a changing climate.