This is a sequel to another paper-also entitled 'Readjusting to Reality', published in <italic>City</italic> 17 (1)-that focused on Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture (UPA) as a vital component of the downward passage from our energy-intensive modern world to one where we will have to live more in tune with our...

In line with a general foreboding emerging from the analysis of the future of our cities—and indeed concerning our civilisations as such—that has made its appearance in the pages of <roman>CITY</roman>, this paper investigates in detail how civilisations collapse. It looks at the systemic forces that...

One facet of <roman>City</roman> over the years has been a rather dark foreboding that the trajectory of urbanisation around the world is accumulating problems that refuse to be solved and that in the foreseeable future we will see some kind of apocalyptic collapse. In New Orleans we saw one version of this,...

Modern civilisation has been driven by the notion that things can but go onwards and upwards with two versions of the vision being one of urbanisation in the context of technological and economic progress contrasted with another that saw the eventual achievement of a society of easy living and...

Against a background of unrest and violent demonstrations and the demise of the Suharto regime in Indonesia, Adrian Atkinson highlights the activities of the Metropolitan Environmental Improvement Project (MEIP) in the city of Surabaya. He discusses, how through this project, the Surabaya Urban...