Megacity Leapfrogging

This got my attention, a quote from Cleveland City "Increasingly, the fate of the planet depends on the future of cities. Cities are where most people live, where most resources and energy are consumed, and where most wastes are produced. To avert further destruction of the earth's life-support systems, cities must be transformed into places where people can live healthier lives while reducing their ecological impacts"



Gives a bit of a vision for what the challenge is: the article is a good outline of what is needed and nonours the complexities; there's no simple fix, rather "we're talking not about one process, but a thousand simultaneous and unique undertakings. Each city has its own possibilities, possibilities which can usually only be seen by those deeply enmeshed in the life of that city. Even where a tool is universally useful, its actual use will be always and everywhere particular to place. If redesigning the city is seen as pursuing some Modernist dream of ideal perfection, we've failed before we started."

WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Urban Sustainability, Megacity Leapfrogging: