The more I read about what's going on in NYC, SF, London, I have to think of the visions from utopianist architects like Paolo Soleri and Buckminster Fuller who

The more I read about what's going on in NYC, SF, London, I have to think of the visions from utopianist architects like Paolo Soleri and Buckminster Fuller who foresaw the over population of cities and not just the economic side effects, but the lifestyle and chaos inherited from the haphazard design of entire cities. [image from Paolo Soleri, on "Archology", cities as ecosystems co-designed] http://alastairgordonwalltowall.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/arcology-4.jpg http://alastairgordonwalltowall.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/... All these megacities have lacked expansion efforts driving up costs of rent to unaffordable levels for most normal people. As jobs are automated out of existence, and productivity increases, unemployment will continue to increase, the % of the population stuck in poverty level will likely continue to increase. Sooner or later these issues will need to be addressed with long term answers. It seems like if anyone might actually implement newly designed large scale planned city architecture, it will be China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcology