Streets In The Air

City streets are getting so crowded that citizens are looking to the skies for relief!

Urbanization keeps accelerating, as cities become increasingly powerful drivers of the global economy. But whereas cities not only contain the majority of the earth’s population, and consume an even higher proportion of its natural resources, cities in fact only occupy one percent or less of the land area worldwide. [1] Cities are, in other words, extremely space-challenged places. 

Yet, from the perception of space, cities seem to be inhabited by people who have not realized there is a third dimension; apart from a few airplanes, the kies above are mostly empty.