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The City As Infestation

For all their variety and variation, cities are, at their root, physical systems. That means, at some fundamental level, they are also expressions of the laws of physics.

That vast web of geometries traced out in light shows you cities as a kind of infestation.

Our relentless city building is really at the heart of our changing the planet in ways that include increasing atmospheric levels of CO2 and methane, in the warming of the land and the oceans and the lowering the planets total ice cover. Life – in this case us and our city building – is once again driving the planet in new directions.

Now folks are suggesting that we are entering a new epoch, the Anthropocene.

Photo by NASA