As cities adapt to climate change, how should urban planning decisions be made? And who gets to make them?

Kian Goh is an urban studies and climate justice scholar, and an architect. She's also an assistant professor of urban planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Goh’s recent research has focused on three cities – Jakarta, Rotterdam and New York – and the pressures – from public officials, community activists or outside bodies – that determine cities’ responses to a warming planet.

Goh will talk about resilience on Monday, Nov. 9 as part of the UCLA Arts series “10 Questions: Reckoning,” which brings UCLA faculty from across campus together to examine ten essential questions.

She spoke to the UCLA Arts podcast “Works In Progress” about the power structures that dictate how cities respond to climate change.