Introduction
It has been an eventful 50 years since Jane Jacobs published her seminal work on urbanism The Death and Life of Great American Cities in 1961. At that time, the world’s population stood at just over 3 billion and life expectancy in the USA was about 70 years. The population of India and China alone are projected to reach this level by 2050 while globally, having passed 7 billion, humanity may reach the 10 billion mark. This rapid growth in population is nowhere more pronounced than in cities. New York City, the largest city in the USA, had a population of 7.8 million inhabitants in 1961 and now stands at 8.2million, solely within city limits (i.e. the five boroughs). The reason this does not seem like rapid growth ...
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