The City: One of Humanity’s Greatest Creations. There is no single definition that can fully capture what a city is—large or small. Perhaps the closest we come is this: you know when you are in one. A city is not a definition but an experience that overwhelms the individual with processes, people, and structures tooContinue reading “Why Cities?”
Author Archives: Arnold Roquerre
African Cities and Consanguineous Marriages
Effect of descendants of cousin marriage on African cities.
DEI Pundits Ignoring IQ Is Gutting Our Cities
Coming 5/2/26
The Social Characteristics of Cities on the Moon and Mars.
Coming 5/1/26
Bad Mayors, & Economic Decline!
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, New York, political leadership has increasingly promoted interventionist policies that place growing strain on urban economies, even as those advancing them remain largely insulated from their effects.
Cities in Denial: The Governance Failures Driving Modern Decline
For more than a century, thinkers have warned that cities cultivate a dangerous detachment from physical limits. Today that detachment wears green and progressive colors—and it is pushing once-great metropolises toward the same cliff that swallowed every previous utopian experiment.
Urban Water Security: Tehran’s Existential Crisis and the Future of Mexico City, Johannesburg, Istanbul, and Chennai
Tehran is facing one of the most dangerous urban water crises in the world—driven not by climate change but by collapsing aquifers and accelerating land subsidence that now threaten the city’s ability to function. This article explains why Tehran’s risk is unique, how cities like Mexico City, Johannesburg, Istanbul, and Chennai compare, and what these urban futures mean for migration, stability, and survival.
The Achilles Heel of Modern Cities: Aging Populations, Cultural Relativism, and the Myth of Equal Ability
Modern cities face a hidden convergence of pressures—rapid aging, cultural relativism, and widening gaps in human ability. Policymakers cling to the myth that all citizens possess equal aptitude, but this idealized model weakens education, workforce readiness, and civic resilience. As demographic and cultural stresses intensify, cities risk failing not from lack of resources but from refusing to confront human and structural differences.
Green Colonialism Brings Energy Poverty, Stunts Cities and Perpetuates Poverty
Green Energy leads to Energy Poverty. It is another form of colonialism and oppression, where a small group benefits at the expense of the larger population.
Tehran’s Looming Water Shortage Was Foreseen and Ignored: How Leadership Turned a Manageable Risk Into a Disaster
Tehran’s water shortage was foreseen — and Ignored: Tehran’d leadership failure turned a manageable risk Into a Deep Crisis.