Cities of the future
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Hinge, v.33, 1997, pp. 24-25
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Let's start with a few facts: in the last 40 years the world populations has multiplied 10 times. In 1990, there were 35 cities with more than five million inhabitants (22 of which were in the developing world); by the year 2000, there will be 57 cities with over 5 million people and 44 of them will be in the developing world.
If nothing else, we can predict that the true cities of the future are going to be big."Designers are the problem! Structural engineers need them to catch up in order to integrate developments into the urban and social fabric," Tony Fitzpatrick"Cities are parasites on the landscape, huge organisms draining the world for their sustenance and their energy," Lord Richard Rogers"Will we be individuals wired into a virtual city…or cities of mega-structures, each containing hundreds of thousands of people in artificial environments while the rest of the world turns back into wilderness?" Prof Christopher Frayling"The towerblock is too much like a claustrophobic, vertical tube," Terry Farrell CBE"It's not a question of height, but of the public realm where the building hits the street," Ricky Burdett
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1997
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en