Lots of reading on mega-cities

My thanks to Daniel Hilson, Professor Peter Newman, Chris Skinner and Tamara Griffiths for the wealth of reading they suggested in response to my post about the design and infrastructure problems facing the world's mega-cities.

Here are the highlights:

• UN-HABITAT's global reports on human settlements.
• Megacity Challenges: A research project by GlobeScan and MRC McLean Hazel.
• The Transition Towns movement, designed to improve community resilience against the challenges of peak oil and climate change.
• On the same theme, see this book.
• Website of the Ecocity World Summit.
• Two good blogs on sustainable urbanism.
• And two possible solutions to the problems of urbanism: vertical farming and Masdar, the UAE's proposed carbon-neutral city.