2010-4 Pentagram English

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the city as projection of human development

THE IDEAL CITY

Apart from the four characteristics of a city mentioned in the previous article, planners and urban developers are nowadays also confronted with problems like overpopulation and its consequences for the whole planet. Global warming, the increasing stress and aggression in metropolitan areas, the exhaustion of the energy resources like oil, or perhaps even more important, the access to drinking water, cause many to take the future of humanity to heart.

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