What Matters: How big can cities get?

McKinsey Quarterly
Enero 2011

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 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)

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