Clay Risen, AlterNet. February 27, 2009. 40 years of benign (and not so benign) neglect have done inordinate damage to the socioeconomic structures of our inner cities.
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. September 5, 2007. Archaeologists have discovered that Brak, a Syrian city and one of the oldest urban areas in the world, was built in a way that completely defies conventional wisdom about how cities grow.
James Howard Kunstler, Kunstler.com. October 23, 2006. The era of cheap oil is over, and lost with it an energy-rich way of life that billions of city dwellers have come to take for granted.