Henri Sulku is an editor of Turning Point with focus on political economy, people’s history, and resistance movements.
Urban Landscapes in the 21st Century: Can Eco-Cities Tackle Climate Change and Pollution?
While many aspects of city design, participatory municipal governance, or ecological engineering may still be waiting for an integrated urban form, the green corridors, urban forests, and neighborhood communes that have sprung up in the past decade propose concrete, field-tested, and scientifically scrutinized directions for Mumford’s “vaster task” of reviewing our conventional truths about urbanization, prosperity, and civilization.
October 23, 2024