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.
