Beyond the City

&dquo;If you do not think about the future, you will not have one&dquo; goes a recent saying. Surely not the one you might have wished. The penalty for our failure to think ahead is one we all must pay. Who among us anticipated the Baby Boom of the fifties, the militant turn to the Civil Rights Struggle, the sexual revolution, or the Women’s Liberation Movement? Who can escape their impact? As a fifth candidate having the potential power to transform our lives, I nominate the drift toward &dquo;megalopolis,&dquo; a drift not merely toward a new type of city but toward a new era. The trends are there, more pronounced with each passing day, ready to provoke interest and debate. Instead, we accept them as we do the weather, hoping for the