Nepal, Sept. 2 -- Urbanization can enlarge human possibilities, but only when cities align technology, social equity, and economic ambition with the environmental realities of place. "The resilient city of this century will not be the city that defeats nature. It will be the city that learns how to live intelligently within it."

Traveling through Tanzania in July 2026 and then through Leh, Ladakh, and Kathmandu in August, after repeated journeys across Europe and the Middle East, is to cross an extraordinary geographical transect of the twenty-first century. Dar es Salaam rises beside the warm Indian Ocean. Kathmandu expands across a monsoon-fed, earthquake-prone mountain basin. Leh survives in the cold desert of the Himalaya. The Europ...