As the world population continues to grow, more people will be moving to cities, making our current large metropolises swell by millions. This work explores what will be needed to build and sustain these cities, and supply and transport their inhabitants on Earth and beyond.
As the world population continues to grow, more people will be moving to cities, making our current large metropolises swell by millions. This work explores what will be needed to build and sustain these cities, and supply and transport their inhabitants on Earth and beyond.
Jeff Dondero has a diverse background and experience in writing, ranging from web content, B2B, books, hard news, and interviews to feature writing. He began his career as stringer and freelancer for the San Francisco Examiner, worked as a reporter and editor for several suburban newspapers, was the entertainment editor for The Marin Independent Journal, a writer and editor of various magazines, wrote for KTVU-TV in the San Francisco Bay Area, toiled in a trade magazine mill, and created a website dedicated to sustainable construction industries (http://www.greenbuildingdigest.net/). He was invited as a writer-in-residence at the art colony in Rancho Vista, Arizona in 2014, where he wrote a slim volume of poetry. He continues to expand his national readership with books, social media, various writers' blogs and websites, radio and television appearances. Jeff Dondero is also the author of The Energy Wise Home: Practical Ideas for Saving Energy, Money, and the Planet (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) and The Energy Wise Workplace: Practical and Cost-Effective Ideas for a Sustainable and Green Workplace (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).
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Preface Acknowledgments and Disclaimer Chapter 1: Seeking Supercities: Surroundings, Settings, and Situations Chapter 2: Habitats for Inhabitants: Home Is Where the Heart, Hearth, and Habitat Are Chapter 3: Burrowing Beneath the Earth: Tomorrow's Troglodytes Chapter 4: Going Back to the Sea: Back to Our Beginnings Chapter 5: Settlements Above the Sky: Cities in Space Chapter 6: The Most Important Color in Supercities: Getting Green Chapter 7: Bleeding-Edge Building Materials: If You Build It, They Will Come Chapter 8: Getting Somewhere from Someplace: New Age Transportation Chapter 9: Priorities for Power: Sustainables That Keep On Giving Chapter 10: Provisioning the Populace: Resourcing Resources Chapter 11: Smart City Systems: AI and Automation Chapter 12: Super Skyscrapers: How High Can We Go? Chapter 13: New Use for Refuse: Gold in Garbage Chapter 14: Cautionary Comments on Climate Change: How to Cope Notes About the Author
Preface Acknowledgments and Disclaimer Chapter 1: Seeking Supercities: Surroundings, Settings, and Situations Chapter 2: Habitats for Inhabitants: Home Is Where the Heart, Hearth, and Habitat Are Chapter 3: Burrowing Beneath the Earth: Tomorrow's Troglodytes Chapter 4: Going Back to the Sea: Back to Our Beginnings Chapter 5: Settlements Above the Sky: Cities in Space Chapter 6: The Most Important Color in Supercities: Getting Green Chapter 7: Bleeding-Edge Building Materials: If You Build It, They Will Come Chapter 8: Getting Somewhere from Someplace: New Age Transportation Chapter 9: Priorities for Power: Sustainables That Keep On Giving Chapter 10: Provisioning the Populace: Resourcing Resources Chapter 11: Smart City Systems: AI and Automation Chapter 12: Super Skyscrapers: How High Can We Go? Chapter 13: New Use for Refuse: Gold in Garbage Chapter 14: Cautionary Comments on Climate Change: How to Cope Notes About the Author
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