Cities
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Beyond cities, all of this sensing and actuating is entering our everyday objects.
But the thing that was true, the expo was about the future of cities, and particularly the Victorians pioneered integrating nature into the
cities.
So it's how New York communicates with other international
cities.
Today, I'm using it to create permanent, billowing, voluptuous forms the scale of hard-edged buildings in
cities
around the world.
I want to create these oases of sculpture in spaces of
cities
around the world.
They don't have funding yet, but I dream now of bringing these to
cities
around the world where they're most needed.
Our new goal should be that when every family thinks about where they want to live and work, they should be able to choose between at least a handful of different
cities
that were all competing to attract new residents.
But the amazing thing about
cities
is they're worth so much more than it costs to build them.
So we could easily supply the world with dozens, maybe hundreds, of new
cities.
Now this might sound preposterous to you if you've never thought about new
cities.
But just substitute apartment building for
cities.
So I proposed that governments create new reform zones big enough to hold
cities
and gave them a name: charter
cities.
I tried to explain this point about how valuable
cities
are, how much more valuable they are than they cost.
They've actually built two
cities
already in China and are preparing the third.
There's designers and builders of
cities
who are very interested.
What kind of an idea is it to think about insisting that every family have a choice of several
cities
that are competing to attract new residents?
In the decades to come, 75 percent of the world's population will live in cities, and 50 of those
cities
will be of 10 million people or more.
And this is something that we should really work on, which is Africa, which is just a few trickles, basically in South Africa and a few other urban
cities.
Now imagine archeologists digging through the rubble of one of our
cities.
But I can read this map, and what this map says is that, if you're trying to make money on the markets where the red dots are, that's where people are, where the
cities
are, you're going to have to put the servers where the blue dots are to do that most effectively.
China's building 300 new
cities
in the next 20 years.
Now listen to this: Every week for the foreseeable future, until 2050, every week more than a million people are being added to our
cities.
Everybody in this room, if you stay alive, is going to be affected by what's happening in
cities
in this extraordinary phenomenon.
However, cities, despite having this negative aspect to them, are also the solution.
Because
cities
are the vacuum cleaners and the magnets that have sucked up creative people, creating ideas, innovation, wealth and so on.
And so there's an urgent need for a scientific theory of
cities.
So my provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious scientific theory of
cities.
The first is: Are
cities
part of biology?
Very few
cities
fail.
Very, very bad for economies and companies and
cities
in our present paradigm.
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