September 2010:
A recent posting in the Huffington Post featured the rapid growth of global urbanization with images from eleven of the world’s largest “megacities.” Coupled with Arianna Huffington’s focus on Third World America and devolving conditions in many parts of the country, the deep fear is emerging that the pressures of exponential growth in urban areas, stagnating economic development and dwindling natural resources will result in inadequate housing, vanishing water and energy supplies, and limited access to health care. More…