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But today, I want to ask you this: What would happen if we asked children to design our cities? (Laughter) Back in 2009, I was introduced to a small group of people who wanted to start a child-friendly city initiative in Boulder, Colorado.
We wouldn't be designing better cities for children.
Children would be designing better cities for themselves, and for the rest of us, too.
Do our cities really need a park made out of candy?
We've now been using this process for eight years, and along the way, we've found some incredible benefits to designing cities with children.
So if we build cities that take into the consideration their needs for alternative forms of transportation and for cheaper food venues, we meet the needs of many other populations, too.
Because our children are designing the cities that will make us happier and healthier.
Children are designing the cities we all want to live in.
So when we look at a downtown area, at a place that has a hope of being walkable, and mostly that's our downtowns in America's cities and towns and villages, we look at them and say we want the proper balance of uses.
And again, in the typical American cities in which most Americans live, it is housing that is lacking.
But perfectly walkable cities require transit, because if you don't have access to the whole city as a pedestrian, then you get a car, and if you get a car, the city begins to reshape itself around your needs, and the streets get wider and the parking lots get bigger and you no longer have a walkable city.
But the amazing thing about most American cities that I work in, the more typical cities, is that they have a lot of streets that are actually oversized for the congestion they're currently experiencing.
Bicycles and bicycling are the current revolution underway in only some American cities.
Even automotive cities like Long Beach, California: vast uptick in the number of bikers based on the infrastructure.
Think about your own cities.
Seventeen goals ranging from ending poverty to inclusive cities to sustainable fisheries; all a comprehensive plan for the future of our world.
SDG 1 on poverty, SDG 5 on gender equality, SDG 10 on inequality, SDG 11 on inclusive cities and SDG 16 on peace and justice.
The first is with cities. San Francisco wanted to understand what percentage of litter was cigarettes.
And in fact, many cities across the US have even passed ordinances that simply ban the production of many products containing polystyrene, which includes disposable utensils, packing peanuts, takeout containers and even plastic beach toys, all products that are very useful in today's society.
One study of the 171 largest cities in the United States concluded that there is not even one city where whites live under equal conditions to blacks, and that the worst urban contexts in which whites reside is considerably better than the average context of black communities.
Number one group on Meetup right now, most chapters in most cities with most members, most active?
In fact, monetary policy is set by an independent Federal Reserve System, or the Fed, made up of 12 regional banks in major cities around the country.
CA: But a lot of people imagining, dreaming about future cities, they imagine that actually the solution is flying cars, drones, etc.
CA: So you've got this vision of future cities with these rich, 3D networks of tunnels underneath.
But nurses and doctors are concentrated in cities, so rural communities like Musu's have been left behind.
What if Musu could help us bring health care from clinics in cities to the doorsteps of her neighbors?
That is the kind of creepy transformation that is taking over cities, only it applies to buildings, not people.
These are just ordinary residences expressing the ordinary splendor of cities.
But that's getting harder to do, because cities are becoming smooth.
When we reject granite and limestone and sandstone and wood and copper and terra-cotta and brick and wattle and plaster, we simplify architecture and we impoverish cities.
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