A Medieval Model: The Future Of Urban Planning?

Steven Johnson discusses the challenges urban planners face in creating the cities of the future that offer protection from terrorism.

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February 4, 2002, 9:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"The question for tomorrow's planners will be how to preserve the virtues of density while protecting city dwellers from the nonlinear, asymmetrical threat of modern warfare, wherein one person can potentially take out an entire city. A hundred years from now, we may look back at the World Trade Center attacks and see the origins of a new new urbanism."

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