Little Elian is a superb present to the regime, I judged from watching Fidel Castro listening to these interventions. Demonstrating for Elian does not feed the eleven million Cubans, but it does divert public opinion from the regime s failures. Brigitte Granville is Head of the International Economics Programme at Chatham House. Urbanisation will be one of the big issues of the new millennium. According to UN estimates, half the world s population will soon live in cities.
Cities are at a cross-roads.
Hugh Wenban-Smith, a former Director on the transport side of the British Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, has coordinated a project based at Chatham House to develop scenarios for cities in 2020.