December 11th, 2007

How Should We Be Think­ing About Urbanization?

Urban­iza­tion has been climb­ing steadily of late, with more than half of the world’s pop­u­la­tion now living in cities. Given the eco­nomic, soci­o­log­i­cal, polit­i­cal, and envi­ron­men­tal ram­i­fi­ca­tions, how should we be think­ing about this? We gath­ered a quorum of smart thinkers on this sub­ject — James Howard Kun­stler, Edward Glaeser, Robert Brueg­mann, Dolores Hayden, and Alan Berube — and posed to them the fol­low­ing questions:

An excel­lent arti­cle from the Freaka­nomics guys, along with some other notable heavy­weights in the areas of energy depen­dence, urban con­di­tions, and what the future may hold for those living in mega cities around the world.

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