City Of The Future

摘要

Scott smith likes to introduce himself as mayor of "the biggest city you've never heard of". Mesa is twice the size of Washington, dc, and has a population greater than Cleveland or Miami. This week the Arizona settlement annexed five square miles (13 sq km) of desert, on which a new urban centre will rise. The biggest city you have never heard of plans to become a lot bigger.rnUntil it was temporarily halted by foreclosure and the credit crunch, Mesa was an extreme example of sunbelt growth. In 1940 it contained just 7,000 inhabitants, many of them Mormons. Then the explosion began. Driven by migration from the rest of America, Mesa's population roughly doubled,in each of the next five decades. It now contains almost half a million people and has sprawled into a me-