Cities in sentence

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The media and the Internet love to rank cities.

And then came the list of the most obese cities in the country.

You know, these are cities that, typically, you're not embarrassed to be associated with.

Then I looked on the list of fittest cities, and we were on that list.

So let's look at the other end of the spectrum: our cities and megacities.

Half of the Earth's population lives in cities today.

In the developed world and the emerging world, we would hope it would become a new mode of transportation that could help make our cities more livable.

Mobility in developing world cities is a very peculiar challenge, because different from health or education or housing, it tends to get worse as societies become richer.

There is a conflict in developing world cities for money, for government investment.

I would propose two kinds which both have much to do with cities.

In fact, buses are not sexy, but they are the only possible means to bring mass transit to all areas of fast growing developing cities.

There is a really enormous conflict, when we are talking about developing country cities, between pedestrians and cars.

In terms of transport infrastructure, what really makes a difference between advanced and backward cities is not highways or subways but quality sidewalks.

In the next 50 years, more than half of those cities which will exist in the year 2060 will be built.

In many developing country cities, more than 80 and 90 percent of the city which will exist in 2060 will be built over the next four or five decades.

But this is not just a matter for developing country cities.

And I believe that our cities today have severe flaws, and that different, better ones could be built.

What is wrong with our cities today?

We have had cities for 8,000 years, and children could walk out of home and play.

They completely changed cities.

So we could make different cities, cities that will give more priority to human beings than to cars, that will give more public space to human beings than to cars, cities which show great respect for those most vulnerable citizens, such as children or the elderly.

I will propose to you a couple of ingredients which I think would make cities much better, and it would be very simple to implement them in the new cities which are only being created.

Hundreds of kilometers of greenways criss-crossing cities in all directions.

In new cities which are going to be built, this would not be particularly difficult.

Because of private property of land and high land prices, all developing country cities have a large problem of slums.

In my country of Colombia, almost half the homes in cities initially were illegal developments.

The cities we are going to build over the next 50 years will determine quality of life and even happiness for billions of people towards the future.

I am sure, I am optimistic, that they will make cities better than our most ambitious dreams.

And it reminded me that even people who grow up in cities feel a natural connection with the natural world and with animals.

There was a housing collapse, an auto industry collapse, and the population had plummeted by 25 percent between 2000 and 2010, and many people were beginning to write it off, as it had topped the list of American shrinking cities.

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