In its research section, the magazine presents eight texts investigating the evidence and hypotheses on the shape of the informational city, metropolitan regions and imagined communities, large Spanish cities at the dawn of the XXI century, governability in the metropolitan area of the Valle de México, a new approach for new territoriality, intermediate cities between specific areas and cities and global spaces, forecasts relating to the Valencia labour market, Spain and the city of the future: towards a universal pantopolis?. The texts are accompanied by the regular property sections, correspondence, documentation and books and reviews, which include accumulated indices of magazines published during 2004.

When viewing the city as an ecosystem, the stubborn neglect of implacable laws of thermodynamics and, more specifically, its well know second principle, the increasing production of entropy, could become an irreversible folly. We only possess the natural “capital” that we inherited, and wasting it as our current urban lives do not only demonstrates a selfishness that could well be considered an extinction of “public wealth”, but also our own limitation as a species.

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22/05/2006

22/05/2006

Josep Roca Cladera (coord.)

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Urban Policy > Urban environment > Land use

Urbanisation