Technology, synergy, and urban evolution

Discusses population growth in urban areas and related problems, and poses several models for solutions to these problems. [UMN]

"Networking plays a key role in developing a collective will for a cooperative approach to designing urban ecosystems. Today, strategic partnerships are forming between the forces of urban growth and the movement for a sustainable environment. We have the knowledge to reinvent our cities and need not to choose between sustainability and prosperity. We have the technology to share that knowledge - from every megacity to every small town. And it begins right here with you." [Abstract]

[September 17-20, 2003, San Antonio, Texas]