Our (future) cities, our (future) selves

(Urban, wealth, education, ageing; Songs of the city: The Specials; Marvin Gaye; Randy Crawford)

Part of coastal south suburban Dublin - Dalkey, Sandycove, Dun Laoghaire, with views across the bay to Howth - author pic

We humans have embarked an on an unprecedented quadruple experiment – one affecting just about everyone on the planet. And, remarkably, excluding academia and some rarefied policy circles, we aren’t really talking about it, or even th…