Cities in Transition
A 2010 Forecast + Alternative Scenarios
Reinventing village life for a high-density world
With more than half our human population living in cities, we have to ask: Will these cities be safe, pleasurable, sociable, and sustainable in the decades to come? Will they be resilient in the face of climate disasters, of growing poverty, of cyclical or sudden and precipitous shortfalls in basic resources like water, energy, and food? Perhaps most important: How will we sustain the cacophony of dreams that cities represent for people of all ages, all cultures, all over the world?