Slumdog Prince....

For once, I seem to agree with the prince. Cities are our hope - for better or worse - from the environmental sustainability point of view and to further our goals to nurture, maintain and sustain local economies and their interdependence with the formal sector. To minimize the impact of urbanization, we must focus on cities to maximize our use of urban land, efficient use of existing or new resources, reduce proliferation and land-banking - to protect what otherwise would be engulfed by the cities of dispersal and urban greed.
-Viren

Dwellers go about their daily routine in the Dharavi slum in Mumbai. Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images