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The general point is that we will be able to track urban growth as it happens around the whole world in all cities, every day.
Statistically, you are safer as a teenage boy, you would be safer in the fire department or the police department in most American cities than just walking around the streets of your hometown looking for something to do, statistically.
For the first time, nearly a majority of people lived in cities, so there was a growing distance between us and nature.
Who here knows that in many cities across the United States it is now illegal to sit on the sidewalk, to wrap oneself in a blanket, to sleep in your own car, to offer food to a stranger?
And making buildings for this beauty makes cities better places to live.
And better cities make better citizens.
This is what I want to talk about today, and I want to start by defining some terms and then I want to describe the scale of the problem I think we face and then suggest the ways that I believe cities can be the seat of the solution.
And so, for instance, consider the ways that strategies for making cities more bike-friendly have spread so rapidly from Copenhagen to New York to Austin to Boston to Seattle.
Migrant workers from Rome to Los Angeles and many cities between are now organizing to stage strikes to remind the people who live in their cities what a day without immigrants would look like.
In Seattle, where I'm from, we've become part of a great global array of cities that are now working together bypassing government altogether, national government altogether, in order to try to meet the carbon reduction goals of the Kyoto Protocol.
My hometown of Fez, Morocco, boasts one of the largest walled medieval cities in the world, called the medina, nestled in a river valley.
Now, I've spent the last 27 years of my life in India, lived in three small towns, two major cities, and I've had several experiences.
For the first time in our history, men and women in Indian cities woke up to the horrific truth about the true state of women in the country.
["I am born with sisters and cousin who now live in cities and abroad but they never talk to me or complain about their daily difficulties like you say"] Now, the reactions confused me.
New York City has two thirds the green space per resident as other big cities, and this neighborhood as one tenth the green space.
We saw public housing high-rise buildings in all major cities: New York, Philadelphia.
But at the same time, the people of China are asking the question: What's the value of this growth if our cities are unlivable?
It's looking to build its cities in different ways.
If we think of those three areas that I have illustrated with my numbers — cities, energy, land — if we manage all that badly, then the outlook for the lives and livelihoods of the people around the world would be poor and damaged.
And let me explain through those three key areas that I've identified: cities, energy and land.
And let me start with cities.
Surely we recognize that in many of our cities around the world.
Now, with cities, like life but particularly cities, you have to think ahead.
The cities that are going to be built — and there are many, and many big ones — we have to think of how to design them in a compact way so we can save travel time and we can save energy.
The cities that already are there, well established, we have to think about renewal and investment in them so that we can connect ourselves much better within those cities, and make it easier, encourage more people, to live closer to the center.
Now, some things in cities do take time.
Some things in cities can happen much more quickly.
We have to invest in our cities, and we have to invest wisely, and if we do, we'll see cleaner cities, quieter cities, safer cities, more attractive cities, more productive cities, and stronger community in those cities — public transport, recycling, reusing, all sorts of things that bring communities together.
And so, to avoid open defecation, municipalities and cities build infrastructure, for example, like pit latrines, in peri-urban and rural areas.
In some of these areas, there's not enough water, there's no energy, it's going to cost tens of trillions of dollars to lay out the sewer lines and to build the facilities and to operate and maintain these systems, and if you don't build it right, you're going to have flush toilets that basically go straight into the river, just like what's happening in many cities in the developing world.
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