Inventing Future Cities : How we can invent—but not predict—the future of cities.

Batty discusses the coming great transition from a world with few cities to a world of all cities; argues that future cities will be defined as clusters in a hierarchy; describes the future "high-frequency," real-time streaming city; considers urban sprawl and urban renewal; and maps the waves of technological change, which grow ever more intense and lead to continuous innovation-an unending process of creative destruction out of which future cities will emerge.