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Learning to live with the city l The Reith Lectures l The architect Richard Rogers argues that the decaying fabric of urban life must be transformed into a sustainable, civilising environment - if we are to avert catastrophe
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It is a shocking revelation - especially to me as an architect -
that the world's environmental crisis is being driven by our cities.
For the first time in history, half the world's population lives in
cities. In 1900 it was only one-tenth. In 30 years, it may be as much
as three- quarters. The urban population of the world is increasing
at a rate of a quarter of a million people per day - think of it as a
new London every month.
The scale, and the rate of increase, of our consumption...
