Imagine Cities

1560 days ago

Are humans truly built for living in cities? Modern humans have existed for 200,000 years or so, but cities have only been around for, at most, 10,000 years.

Are humans built for living in cities?

medium.com

If Jacob Bronowski’s The Ascent of Man had a sequel, it would be an urban edition. The global rise in city living is so staggering that we must now accept one simple point with myriad, complex implications: the future success of our species is intimately linked to that of our cities.