In the past eight years, the smart-cities rubric has become fashionable among global urban planners, who want to use digital technology and big data to create surveillance-heavy intelligent systems that control how people live, consume energy, go to work, and stay healthy and safe.
However, it does not take a vivid imagination (and indeed the respective statistics support this to come to the conclusion that all those people need to eat, wear clothes, have a place to live, consume raw materials, consume energy and produce waste.
Indeed, if people lived, consumed and produced things in the same way as they did in 1900 (or 1950, or indeed 1980), the world by now would be a pretty disgusting place: smelly, insanitary, toxic and dangerous.But they don't.
Earth is our home; as he says, "A genuine concern for humanity means loving the environment". The way we are living consumes the planet in countless ways.
The lot of the fugitive, their lives consumed by a battle for survival.
Some Kashmiris in Srinagar, fighting a corrupt and brutal Indian rule, found in the book another pretext to ventilate their rage, and a differently motivated crowd of Pakistani protesters attacked the American Center in Islamabad, claiming the first of many lives consumed by a fast-spreading global wildfire.
Award-winning Stephen Hayeshen Hayes will talk about his journey as an artist and his exhibit Cash Crop-a set of 15 life-sized concrete figures, bound and shackled, that represent the 15 million African lives consumed by the Atlantic slave trade.
Adults were too busy minding coping with their own lives, consumed with fear, they were hunting for each other.
The dictator causes lives to be consumed through promulgating wars and acts of brutality such as those perpetrated by the Nazi regime.
They reduce income that can be consumed as living standards by forcing school expenditures and decreasing the time available for work.
