Toronto Star: Shibley quoted on sustainability of cities in Southwest

Robert Shibley, director of the Urban Design Project, is quoted in the Toronto Star in an article on the sustainability of booming cities like Phoenix in the drought-stricken Southwest vs. water-rich cities like Cleveland and Buffalo with huge population declines. "Sticking a straw in the Great Lakes is not a solution to Phoenix's water problems. Maybe it's time to really think about what constitutes need and stop spending money to build carrying capacity in places that don't have it by nature, and start investing in places that do," he said. "You're going to have 150 million people living in at least seven of the major regions that don't have water, don't have carrying capacity, can't feed themselves. It's an ecological disaster waiting to happen. So there's a good reason to think that people should come back to the Northeast, where we have the carrying capacity, and have the water." Go to article.