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IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Susan Hassler	Engineering The Megacity The bright lights of big cities will continue to draw us together, and technology can nudge our increasingly urban development in the direction of peaceful, clean, and safe communal living.
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Steven Cherry	How to Build a Green City Shanghai hopes to build the world's first truly sustainable city.
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Samuel K. Moore	How to Measure a City's Metabolism Just how much land is commandeered to support cities, nations, and their inhabitants is measured using what sustainability experts call ecological-footprint analysis. Here's how it works.
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Peter Fairley	Syn City Could Zaozhuang's hybrid chemical and power plants help clean up China's energy sector?
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Harry Goldstein	How to Blackout-Proof a City Mumbai's economic miracle threatens to overwhelm the power grid.
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Sweet & Cass	How to Fight Crime in Real Time New York City's Real Time Crime Center enables officers to extract information from integrated databases and send it immediately to investigators in the field. Displays are tailored to the situation at hand.
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Harry Goldstein	How Not to Make a Megacity Some cities are littered with garbage. Nigeria's Lagos is littered with corpses.
Smithsonian June 2007 Eric Jaffe	Can Mosquitoes Fight Malaria? Scientists can build a mosquito that resists infection, but getting the insects to pass along the gene is a harder task.
Popular Mechanics June 2007 Emily Masamitsu	4 Geoengineering Attack Plans to Fight Climate Change As the war on global warming heats up, some scientists argue that meddling with the environment might be the only way to save it.
Reason June 2007 Cathy Young	Theocons of the World, Unite A prominent pundit wants American conservatives to make common cause with Muslim reactionaries.
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