What Matters: How big can cities get?

What Matters: How big can cities get?

The world is in the midst of a global mass urbanization that will change everything from how we govern to how we eat to how we care for the environment. What Matters has convened thinkers from around the world to look at the implications of Urban Man.

Visit the site this week to explore the following:

The Debate Zone: As the world urbanizes, will the most successful cities result from top-down planning or bottom-up innovation? Stan Gale, chairman of Gale International, and Alfredo Brillembourg, founding director of Urban Think Tank, weigh in.

Plus, essays from:

Jonathan Woetzel, director, McKinsey’s Shanghai office:
China’s cities in the sky

Stewart Brand, cofounder and president of The Long Now Foundation and founder of Whole Earth Catalog:
Urban squatters save the world

Parag Khanna, senior research fellow, the New America Foundation:
When cities rule the world

Robert Neuwirth, author of Shadow Cities:
In the markets of the meta city

Dickson Despommier, president of the Vertical Farm Project:
Cities alive!

Richard Register, founder, Ecocity Builders:
Let’s build cities for people (not cars)

Join the conversation at What Matters and watch for more essays on this topic in coming weeks.

Help us show you the world’s cities by submitting your photo: What does your city look like?

We are now an urban species. Today, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities, thanks to a historic migration from the countryside. As McKinsey’s What Matters examines the ripple effects of rapid urbanization, we plan to produce a portrait of urban life around the world with the help of our readers. Please share your photos of life in your city. We’ll feature the selected shots on our What Matters Web site.

 

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Diversos ensayos sobre el desarrollo de la ciudades, publicados en la revista trimestral de McKinsey