Our cities need to go on a resource diet

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By Daniel Ladenhauf, Flickr, CC BY-NC</span>Cities are the epicentres of human activity. They cover less than 2% of the earth's land surface but generate about 70% of GDP and house more than half the human population. The importance of cities is only going to increase in coming decades as another 2.5 billion people move to urban centres.