The battle against climate change will be determined by the shape of cities. Urban planning is going to be more critical with solar powered homes, massive investment in public transit systems and policies designed to minimize car use.
It's a point examined by Booz Allen Hamilton in their Strategy + Business journal. It shows, for example, how the German city of Freiburg has built bicycle lanes into all parts of the city, has discouraged auto use by mandating parking in a few designated lots and designed its public transport system to allow even large families to get on without cars. Other cities around the world, like Portland in Orego, Lagos in Nigeria and the Swedish town of Malmo are adopting similar measures.
But then global warming will transform cities in other ways too. As reported here , Professor Laurence Smith, a UCLA professor of geography and of earth and space sciences says it will change the shape of global politics, making cities in northern countries like Canada and Scandinavia the next big global economic powers by unlocking previously frozen natural resources like gas, oil and water and turning Canada into the world's second biggest oil producer after Saudi Arabia.
Climate change will transform the world and cities everywhere. The world is going to look very different 50 years from now.
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