Manhattan 'Green Machine?'
Per head cities are one of the most environmentally efficient ways of living. Due to the fact that the resources are shared. Though the environment might be much nicer in the country the rural citizen is less efficient in terms of energy, infrasturcture, transportation.
The irony is that "A fat man eating fries and watching tv in Manhattan is much more energy efficient than somebody in the country eating organic food and recycling all his rubbish". The city is more efficent because it prevents the individualisation of consumption.
The old, dense, mixed use cites are the equivalent of 'green machines'. I think that this bares reference to Batty's investigation on fractal geometry in the city i.e to find a successful model and replicationg it. Should we be looking back in order to go forward?
