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Shaping a Usable Future

Posted in The next city, The next city: energy, The next city: infrastructure, The next city: introduction, The next city: mobility, The next city: urbanism, The next city: water, tagged The next city, Urban design, urbanism on August 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Frtiz Lang’s “Metropolis”
We have tried here in the last months to describe how our cities, where more than half the world’s population now lives, (80% of all Americans live in cities) are obsolete, and are failing and will more acutely fail to operate as usable human communities in the years ahead. This obsolescence and failure is no [...]

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Challenges for the Next City

Posted in The next city: introduction, tagged Architecture, climate change, The next city, Urban design on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A regular reader here asked me a question the other day. He said: “You talk about the challenges facing the next cities, but I am not sure I understand exactly what you mean.”
So to be as clear as I can, I invite you to read the text below. It is an edited version of an article from The [...]

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The Next City – An Inquiry Begins

Posted in The next city: introduction, tagged Architecture, climate change, The next city, Urban design on January 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Lisbon, Portugal
In recent months we have had the extraordinary opportunity to visit many cities around the world, from Istanbul to Cairo, Lisbon to Rochester, New York to Portland. Some we have visited many times, some for only a fleeting moment. But we have tried to think about each place, tried to get to know a [...]

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