The City and Its Other

ing of the "good life" have frequently placed cities and the country on opposite sides of the arguments. With the increase in the size of cities and metropolitan areas, these arguments have taken on far more acute forms, raising questions not only of "the good life," but also of survival pure and simple. According to some estimates, half the world's population will be living in cities by the year 2006. The split between country and city is very much at the heart of ecological debates that seek solutions to the crises attendant on such a