Tomorrow’s cities are here

Tomorrow’s cities are here

If you go east from hilly Austin, Texas, onto the flat coastal plain that stretches for 130 miles toward Houston, you can glimpse a future of the American city. But it won’t look like Manhattan, Chicago, or even Los Angeles. In fact, you might not realise you’re looking at a city at all.  An example of this type of future “urban” development is Bastrop, a small city located 30 miles east of Austin, with a population of 15,000. Bastrop has a histo