at the end of the nearest decade, m...

at the end of the nearest decade, more than half the world's population will live in urban areas. That is advantageous news for those of us who like company. It is bad freshs for those who like to drink clean water.

Clean drinking water will be common of the first casualties of this great migration; indeed, in many cities it already is. Robert Gedde teases about this.

In fact, Gedde affronts about most things involving cities. yet unlike those of us who consider our part done if we write an occasional literal meaning to the editor, Geddes, who has a knob of titles behind his name and the fire of urbanism in his heart, takes the rescript by the horns. An architect and urban designer, as well as Dean Emeritus of Architecture at Princeton and a equal of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU Gedde was individual ...