We shape our cities and they shape us | Norman Foster Institute

'We shape our cities and they shape us' via The Economist.
As the world faces the challenge of reducing carbon emissions while providing for a growing population, the Norman Foster Institute is educating the leaders who will shape our cities of the future.
The Norman Foster Institute's Master Programme On Sustainable Cities is offered to postgraduate students from different fields who will be the civic leaders of the future. It aims to bridge the divide between academia and practice, working directly with cities to identify key transformational challenges and workshopping solutions with city administrators and their communities through a bottom-up process.
Applications for the 2025 Academic Course are now open at www.normanfosterinstitute.org

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Biodiversity to make cities biodiverse, to bring nature into the city while we transform it to use fewer and less of the available resources; which also means that cities necessarily become compact enabling people to walk to their destinations, or at least not to travel far to get there. If we get most of our wealth from interactions with one another then it makes sense to see the trend for bigger cities and a more sparsely populated countryside. More of the world outside of cities can be given over to or taken over again by nature, and a more compact agriculture or at least better husbanded one, as that countryside is used less as an opportunity for exploitation than for sustainability.