The Future Needs of Cities

Crawford writes, "Transportation is one area where the mismatch between planners' assumptions and the uncertainly of future needs is growing alarmingly wide. One way to anticipate future needs of cities is to better understand the changing ways, and reasons why, people move around cities. This kind of understanding will allow us to start creating cities that are flexible enough to respond to the as-yet unknown future demands we will place on them.

For example, transformations to the organization of our cities will undoubtedly come from how advances in communications technologies are reshaping our personal interactions."