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Climate Risk as Property Data

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Jan 04, 2026
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Climate Risk as Property Data

He stands at elevation overlooking a coastal edge where sea, road, and housing compress into a single vulnerable strip, his attention fixed not on the horizon but on the information layered over it. The Jamaican man holds his phone steady, reading resilience metrics that now sit alongside the familiar forms of roofs, roads, and traffic, turning landscape into quantified exposure. The house below is rendered twice: once as architecture—timber, roof pitch, setback—and again as data, marked by storm surge height, flood probability, and heat performance. The sea is active, unsettled, pressing against the shoreline, while inland the city rises denser and more vertical, signalling where capital has historically fled from risk. Infrastructure is exposed here, the roadway dipping toward water, mobility and vulnerability sharing the same corridor. This is not alarmism but normalised assessment, where climate is no longer an abstract future threat but a present condition priced into property de…

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