Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.

Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.

The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it.

Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen.

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.

Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.