Okay, you are now in charge of planning an urban area.
Build a city from scratch.
What are you going to put in it? How are you going to avoid problems? Can you ensure that your plan copes with every challenge I'm going to throw at it, with all my questions about public services, transport, housing, employment, infrastructure, environment, building design and culture*?
Plan carefully! Take a moment to consider the favelas, shanty towns, tent cities, and squatter dwellings.
Let's go through this slideshow together about Kibera.
Now, here's the Dateline programme about those ghost towns in China.
City design from the air, here.
*I just want a jolly decent place to live where everyone is nice to each other and there is free ice cream every Wednesday.
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