De stad van morgen

Fijn interview met Kim Stanley Robinson, de zeer productieve sciencefictionschrijver. Veel intrigerende observaties ook over het schrijfproces. Over de plaats van de stad in de nabije toekomst:

And I think cities are better for the planet’s environmental future than suburban sprawl, which I see so much of in California.
  
So: green cities, neo-traditional design and town planning, densification, white and solar rooftops, garden zones, pedestrian zones, mass transit; and also better agriculture to feed the urban populations, including habitat zones that connect up, so that we’re sharing the planet well with the other life forms, especially the mammals that are suffering so in the current dispensation. 

There is, in short, an integrated total design, including an energy and agricultural vision that could keep all the parts of the ecosystem well, including us. It's still emerging but the outlines are clear, it’s only a matter of building it and enacting it. It is not a technical problem so much as an economic problem, meaning a justice problem. I think it is the big project of the next century or two. And cities will be a major part of it.