By Invitation | Economist/Shell Writing Prize 2001

Lessons for a new century

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With the world's urban areas holding four times the population they did in 1950, the time has come to redefine mobility. The ability of an unlimited number of people to go an infinite number of places at any given time in any given conveyance must yield in the new century to the ability to move among strategically-located home, work and play in the most efficient way.

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