The Entire World Visualized as One City

Globalization and urbanization are no longer buzzwords but facts of twenty-first century life. Architects Joyce Hsiang and Bimal Mendis of Plan B Architecture & Urbanism believe it's time we consider these factors on a global scale

While studies on urbanization, for instance, will look at one city or country, they cannot trace the full impact of that city because its footprint is so large, and there is an increasing blurring between rural and urban. In their project, City of 7 Billion, Mendis and Hsiang plan to increase the scale to study population growth and resource consumption on a global level, in one unified model.