BY THE YEAR 2007, for the first time in history, humanity will be primarily an urban species. Over 75% of all North Americans and Europeans already live in cities, and in a few years most citizens in the Global South will have joined them. Each week another million people either move to, or are born in, a city. By 2015, there will be at least twenty-three ‘mega-cities’ in the developing world, each with more than ten million people.
The dilemma, however, is that for everyone to live at the same level of material wealth as North American city dwellers, we’d need another three or four planets. ...
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