The Future City

Third World urban centers consume less resources and produce less waste/person than cities n industrialized countries but health conditions and employment in the former are far worse than in the latter. Greater use must therefore be made of citizens knowledge ingenuity and organizational capacity in order to improve conditions in the cities of developing countries. Much progress could be made were governments to no longer treat as illegal many individual household and community-based actions. Further governments need to provide land sites technical advice infrastructure basic services and a legal framework to protect individuals from industrial pollution and economic exploitation.