Modern cities operate under an economic theory that is less than 300 years old, and our theory of evolution is less than 150, so we don’t yet fully understand their implications. We have not developed an overarching meh to energize our cities, to permeate them with a worldview that aligns our economic, technological, and social advances with the

f humans are to make new ways forward in partnership with nature and technology, we must first take a close look at and upend the concepts, histories, institutions and systems that support the inequitable distribution of resources and power.

But here’s the thing: we have everything we need to create a different world, for everyone. We have myriad ways to harness renewable energy. It’s possible to transform and rebuild our collective infrastructural systems to be functional and also resilient and sustainable. This gives us an unprecedented opportunity to rethink them for the coming