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For you to have an idea, out of the three billion people living in cities today, one billion are under the line of poverty.

By 2030, out of the five billion people that will be living in cities, two billion are going to be under the line of poverty.

If we don't solve this equation, it is not that people will stop coming to cities.

So design's power of synthesis is trying to make a more efficient use of the scarcest resource in cities, which is not money but coordination.

They emerged over the years when immigrants from the countryside came to the cities looking for work, like cities within the cities, known for problems like crime, poverty, and the violent drug war between police and the drug gangs.

But we have a very pessimistic approach about the cities.

I'm working in cities for almost 40 years, and where every mayor is trying to tell me his city is so big, or the other mayors say, "We don't have financial resources," I would like to say from the experience I had: every city in the world can be improved in less than three years.

And that's what we're doing in our cities: living here, working here, having leisure here.

And now there's 83 cities all over the world that they are doing what they call the BRT of Curitiba.

I would like to say, if we want to have a sustainable world we have to work with everything what's said, but don't forget the cities and the children.

Well, the leading epidemiologists and criminologists around the world seem to think we can, and so do I, but only if we focus on our cities, especially the most fragile ones.

For the last 20 years, I've been working in countries and cities ripped apart by conflict, violence, terrorism, or some insidious combination of all.

But I want you to take a closer look, and I think you'll see that the geography of violence is changing, because it's not so much our nation states that are gripped by conflict and crime as our cities: Aleppo, Bamako, Caracas, Erbil, Mosul, Tripoli, Salvador.

After all, most people today, they live in cities, not the countryside.

Just 600 cities, including 30 megacities, account for two thirds of global GDP.

But when it comes to cities, the conversation is dominated by the North, that is, North America, Western Europe, Australia and Japan, where violence is actually at historic lows.

I think it's fragile cities which will define the future of order and disorder.

That's because warfare and humanitarian action are going to be concentrated in our cities, and the fight for development, whether you define that as eradicating poverty, universal healthcare, beating back climate change, will be won or lost in the shantytowns, slums and favelas of our cities.

Most Northern cities today are 100 times safer than they were just 100 years ago.

Forty of the 50 most dangerous cities in the world are right here in Latin America, 13 in Brazil, and the most dangerous of all, it's San Pedro Sula, Honduras' second city, with a staggering homicide rate of 187 murders per 100,000 people.

Now, if violence is re-concentrating geographically, it's also being reconfigured to the world's new topography, because when it comes to cities, the world ain't flat, like Thomas Friedman likes to say.

But consider this one fact: In the 1800s, one in 30 people lived in cities, today it's one in two, and tomorrow virtually everyone is going to be there.

The vast majority, 90 percent, will be happening in the South, in cities of the South.

So urban geographers and demographers, they tell us that it's not necessarily the size or even the density of cities that predicts violence, no.

When you think about the incredible expansion of these cities, and you think about turbo-urbanization, think about Karachi.

Today, it's 21 million people, and apart from accounting for three quarters of Pakistan's GDP, it's also one of the most violent cities in South Asia.

Dhaka, Lagos, Kinshasa, these cities are now 40 times larger than they were in the 1950s.

What it basically means is the proportion of young people living in our fragile cities is much larger than those living in our healthier and wealthier ones.

In some fragile cities, 75 percent of the population is under the age of 30.

Same for most Western European cities.

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