A Tale of Two Futures
The sharing economy, as a feature of urban life, could evolve in promising or not-so-promising ways.
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Cities - Book Reviews
Social innovations that improve the health and resiliency of cities
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Future Thirst
Meeting the world's growing demand for water will require advances in technology that build on 3,000 years of progress.
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Saviors at City Hall?
Urban leaders offer a model for tackling big global problems that nation-states are failing to address.
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Manifest Density
Investment in "hyperdense" cities is, according to one writer, the key to solving many problems that afflict US society.
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Demographic Revision
The vast majority of neighborhoods in American cities do not "trade places." Instead, concentrated poverty and its opposite, concentrated affluence, are surprisingly persistent.
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Misapplying Theory
In his latest book, David Sloan Wilson argues that evolutionary theory should be used to illuminate and tackle urban problems.
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Climate Speculations
CLIMATOPOLIS: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future by Matthew E. Kahn
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