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From the Editor

This is a bittersweet issue. It contains a posthumous article of one of this journal’s founding board members, George Bugliarello. Although he did not know it at the time he wrote it, Bugliarello’s article entitled, “Critical New Bio-Socio-Technological Challenges in Urban Sustainability,” is a summing up of his work of the past decade and of the concerns he had for the future—namely, the sustainability of cities, especially those in the developing world. The article looks both back and forward: back to the ways cities developed in the latter half of the twentieth century and forward to the ways in which he saw cities developing in the twenty-first. The article also reviews Bugliarello’s concept of how cities can be made sustainable by paying attention to the interaction of systems he called the Biosoma, that is, the biological, social, and machine systems that come together in the modern city. He eloquently argues in this paper that cities can become sustainable if these systems are seen as one and balanced accordingly. Despite his reservations about the direction many cities were taking, especially those in the developing world, this polymath, a rationalist, believed that through the application of reasoned planning and engineering it was possible to make cities, in both the developed and developing world, livable and sustainable. It is ironic that Bugliarello was one of the anonymous reviewers of the second piece in this issue, a piece on technologies, development, and the cities of the South. In their paper, Jean-Claude Bolay and Abigail Kern write about the ways in which technologies can be catalysts of development and how they could, therefore, offer wonderful opportunities to the cities of emerging countries. They are concerned in their paper, however, with the nature of urban technologies and whether that term is relevant to the cities of the South and if it is, whether the technologies, so named, can be adapted to the needs of cities in the South. Also writing about how new technologies can be employed to serve the needs of cities of the South are Pran Nath Dadhich and Shinya Hanaoka, who have studied the urban growth of Jaipur, India, and have used advanced satellite data and geographic information systems to model that growth. Their discovery about the ways in which urban growth in Jaipur has converted both barren lands and agricultural areas has implications for planning the continued growth being experienced both in the cities of India and other countries of the developing world. India, and its explosive urban growth, occasioned the program that is described in the paper by Ashwin Mahesh, Moira L. Zellner, and Susan Zielinski. While they focus on the way the Bangalore Transport Information System used advanced and ubiquitous technologies to address the traffic issues arising from Bangalore’s explosive growth, they are most interested in the way the system was effected—a new kind of institutional arrangement that they call Public Journal of Urban Technology, Vol. 18, No. 3, July 2011, 1–2