GEO: Urban Geography and the Environmental impact of cities.

Conventional wisdom is that cities are good for the environment.  Like landfills, they concentrate waste and the inevitable disruption that human habitation wreaks on the environment. Here is a caveat though from Time Magazine's environmental and energy senior correspondent Bryan Walsh:

Urban Planet: How Growing Cities Will Wreck the Environment Unless We Build Them Right

More and more people are moving into cities around the world—and those cities are getting bigger and bigger. The urbanization shift could wreck the environment—unless we can plan the transition.

Sunrise over Pudong, Shanghai, China
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The Chinese city of Shanghai will be one of the largest urban areas in the world

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