The images from tsunamis, typhoons and hurricanes in recent years are seared into memory: people huddling as the waters rise, boats tossed like toys, buildings plowed and smashed. Does climate change portend similar disasters with more frequent and more furious storms? Or does a more gradual, ineluctable catastrophe await cities on the water's edge? A panel chaired by Rupali Gupte of the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture will examine climate change and the ways cities can engineer a defense. Joining her are panelists Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton University; Guy Nordenson, Princeton University; and Franois Gemenne, Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations.