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Doctors are concentrated in the cities, where only half the world's people live, and within cities, not in the shantytowns or South L.A.
Fifty-four percent of the world's population lives in our cities.
Seventy-five percent of global energy consumption occurs in our cities, and 80 percent of gas emissions that cause global warming come from our cities.
They will not be solved unless people who live in cities, like most of us, actually start doing a better job, because right now, we are not doing a very good one.
And that becomes very clear when we look into three aspects of city life: first, our citizens' willingness to engage with democratic institutions; second, our cities' ability to really include all of their residents; and lastly, our own ability to live fulfilling and happy lives.
Voter turnout around the world peaked in the late '80s, and it has been declining at a pace that we have never seen before, and if those numbers are bad at the national level, at the level of our cities, they are just dismal.
In some American cities, voter turnout was close to five percent.
We're talking about democratic cities in which 95 percent of people decided that it was not important to elect their leaders.
When it comes to inclusiveness, our cities are not the best cases of success either, and again, you don't need to look very far in order to find proof of that.
So Rio, like so many cities across the global South, is a place where you can go from northern Europe to sub-Saharan Africa in the space of 30 minutes.
And lastly, perhaps most importantly, cities, with the incredible wealth of relations that they enable, could be the ideal places for human happiness to flourish.
Instead, countries where urbanization has already peaked seem to be the very countries in which cities have stopped making us happy.
The American way of building cities has caused good quality public spaces to virtually disappear in many, many American cities, and as a result, they have seen a decline of relations, of the things that make us happy.
So how do we start building cities that make us care?
Well, I believe that if we want to change what our cities look like, then we really have to change the decision-making processes that have given us the results that we have right now.
And this needs to change, because when it does, not only will people re-engage with the structures of representation, but also complement these structures with direct, effective, and collective decision making, decision making of the kind that attacks inequality by its very inclusive nature, decision making of the kind that can change our cities into better places for us to live.
Those are the kinds of decisions that can actually impact global problems that manifest themselves in our cities.
In other Brazilian cities, those systems have helped solve up to 80 percent of missing persons cases.
As citizens, we are ready to decide on our common destinies, because we know that the way we distribute power says a lot about how we actually value everyone, and because we know that enabling and participating in local politics is a sign that we truly care about our relations to one another, and we are ready to do this in cities around the world right now.
With the Our Cities network, the Meu Rio team hopes to share what we have learned with other people who want to create similar initiatives in their own cities.
It is up to us to decide whether we want schools or parking lots, community-driven recycling projects or construction sites, loneliness or solidarity, cars or buses, and it is our responsibility to do that now, for ourselves, for our families, for the people who make our lives worth living, and for the incredible creativity, beauty, and wonder that make our cities, in spite of all of their problems, the greatest invention of our time.
This campfire dynamic is what's playing out in cities, not just in the US, but all around the world: East London; the east side of Paris is this way; East Jerusalem.
And you'll notice how the red tends to be clustered on the east sides of these cities.
And I dream of the day that we have underwater cities, and maybe, just maybe, if we push the boundaries of adventure and knowledge, and we share that knowledge with others out there, we can solve all sorts of problems.
And who knows, maybe there will be underwater cities, and maybe some of you will become the future aquanauts.
When later archaeologists studied the site, they realized that the mound consisted of no less than nine cities, each built atop the ruins of the last.
Not only do I have a fleet of cars available to me in seven cities around the world that I can have at my beck and call, but heaven forbid I would ever maintain or deal with the repair or have anything to do with it.
We didn't understand in Colombia, if you live in the cities, you're very far away from where the war is actually happening, so you don't really understand it, and we asked the government to give us access to as many demobilized guerrillas as possible.
It's a fact that people are moving towards cities. and even if counterintuitive, it's good news.
Evidence shows that people are better off in cities.
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