What will the city of the future look like ? This question has been asked for many times in recent history – and answered inconclusively an equal number of times – that we can be sure of one thing only: no one can predict with any degree of accuracy how cities will look 50 or 500 years from now.
The reason is simple – cities are in a continual state of change. Over the last fifty years they have changed so rapidly that the oldest residents will remember a time when their city seemed to belong not just to another era but to a different dimension.
This is true both of planned and unplanned cities. Planned cities such as New York and Paris, which are closely organised on a grid or diagram of streets and avenues, have effectively burst at the seams this century, while unplanned cities such as Tokyo and Los Angeles have grown just as dramatically. Although their centres might remain much as they were many years before their suburbs have spread like the tentacles of an octopus.
Some economists argue that expansion is a sign of a healthy economy and that it is expanding cities that attract international investment.
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What will the city of the future look like ? This question has been asked for many times in recent history – and answered inconclusively an equal number of times – that we can be sure of one thing only: no one can predict with any degree of accuracy how cities will look 50 or 500 years from now.
The reason is simple – cities are in a continual state of change. Over the last fifty years they have changed so rapidly that the oldest residents will remember a time when their city seemed to belong not just to another era but to a different dimension.
This is true both of planned and unplanned cities. Planned cities such as New York and Paris, which are closely organised on a grid or diagram of streets and avenues, have effectively burst at the seams this century, while unplanned cities such as Tokyo and Los Angeles have grown just as dramatically. Although their centres might remain much as they were many years before their suburbs have spread like the tentacles of an octopus.
Some economists argue that expansion is a sign of a healthy economy and that it is expanding cities that attract international investment.
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