Monday 11 June 2007

Twenty-First Century Cities

Forbes have assembled a great package of what we have to look forward to in the future.

Two Billion Slum Dwellers

Elisabeth Eaves

Cities are the future of the world, and slums are the future of the city.


Snitchtown
Cory Doctorow
In the brave new world of ubiquitous security cameras, universal surveillance is seen as the solution to all urban ills.

In Defense Of Sprawl

By Robert Bruegmann
Think the inexorable spread of cities is a bad thing? Think again.

Megacities Of The Future

Mark Lewis
The demographic future belongs to cities like Mumbai, Shanghai and Dhaka.

Ghost Cities of 2100
By Elisabeth Eaves
Even as the world's urban population explodes, these eight cities face potential extinction. (i particularly like this section, with the specific senario for each city's demise, they would all make great futurama episodes)

via Boing Boing