ABSTRACT
Modern towns and cities often seems to have little in common but their diversity. There are the mega-cities of the world, vast assemblages of people and concrete with their pockets of extreme wealth and extreme misery. There are still a few single-industry, working-class towns in poignant contrast, and there are opulent stockbroker-belt towns and villages, rural representatives of a new international financial system. There are desert retirement communities. There are heritage towns and cities pandering to the tourist dollar. There are cities which are centres of government and the military. The list goes on and on. How can we meld all these towns and cities into a single, coherent vision?
