studiolibani: The Importance of Designing Cities to Be More Sustainable and Resilient

The industrial revolution shifted the world from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy, bringing with it a great many benefits such as increased production of goods, with greater levels of efficiency, improved wages, some level of deflation (lower pricing of goods and services), a stampede migration from rural areas to urban cities, and significant overall economic growth of the world. The industrial revolution also brought about significant environmental degradation and for short bouts of time, negatively impacted the health of our society. Economists argue that the economic gains of the industrial revolution assisted the human population to achieve greater health overall with greater access to healthcare; but, many will also argue that the industrial revolution has increased the pollutants in the air we breathe, created an a