出版社：International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
摘要：The world is becoming ever more populous and urbanized.
Cities are inherently unmitigated environmental “evils”;
with no extenuating circumstances; like bulls in china
shops. Man’s burden on the environment—woe, that
it is—will continue to be piled upon woe. So runs the
popular mind-set.
Yet things do not have to be this way, no matter how hard
it may be today to conceive of cities as forces for good in the
environment. Far from infrastructures having to take on the
burden of compensating for the ills of cities, the two should
“act” deliberately to contribute positively to enhancement of
the environment around them. That is our grand challenge for
engineering; and this is how we might begin to think of responding
to the challenge.
