In the world's wealthy regions, economic activity is articulated through networks uniting cities around the world--road, rail, shipping, airlines, and telecommunications. If that is so, then shouldn't we also be looking to intercity networks as the key to international development, and not the good governance agenda?
The cities of the twenty-first century are too big for the old hub-and-spokes models; cities like Los Angeles, London and Sydney should be planned as tapestries, with ruthless disregard for the traditional dominance of our city centres.
A list of the world's largest urban agglomerations for 2010, following the release of UN-DESA's revised World Urbanization Prospects tabling population predictions for the world's cities.
On the occasion of the World Urban Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Kerwin Datu speaks with Professor Edgar Pieterse, director of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, on retheorising the African city, the politics of Africa's mega-regions…
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Most older city centres have been subject to an upward spiral of infrastructure investment, with each project seeking vainly to reduce the increased congestion created by the last generation, to the neglect of the outer suburbs. The supposed importance of the centre is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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