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Shiny towers are an invasive species and they are choking our cities and killing off public space.
In expensive cities like New York, it has the magical power of being able to multiply real estate values by allowing views, which is really the only commodity that developers have to offer to justify those surreal prices.
By the mid-20th century, it had come to dominate the downtowns of some American cities, largely through some really spectacular office buildings like Lever House in midtown Manhattan, designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.
Because as the world's populations converge on cities, the least fortunate pack into jerry-built shantytowns.
And imagine if green facades were as ubiquitous as glass ones how much cleaner the air in Chinese cities would become.
When you use materials that have a local significance, you prevent cities from all looking the same.
After all, cities are places of concentrated variety where the world's cultures and languages and lifestyles come together and mingle.
Solution number three: most refugees are in urban areas, in cities, not in camps.
For a recent project called Drone Aviary, we were interested in exploring what it would mean to live with drones in our cities.
We want to help individuals, organizations, and down the road, municipalities design and build facilities in their own cities.
Or I did fieldwork, spending nights and days in internet cafés, hanging out with Chinese youth, so I could understand how they were using games and mobile phones and using it between moving from the rural areas to the cities.
At the same time that we're solving for climate change, we're going to be building cities for three billion people.
If we don't get that right, I'm not sure all the climate solutions in the world will save mankind, because so much depends on how we shape our cities: not just environmental impacts, but our social well-being, our economic vitality, our sense of community and connectedness.
Fundamentally, the way we shape cities is a manifestation of the kind of humanity we bring to bear.
It doesn't allow the cross-fertilization, the interaction, that make cities great places and that make society thrive.
Greenhouse gas: tremendous savings, because in California, our biggest carbon emission comes from cars, and cities that don't depend on cars as much obviously create huge savings.
And that's a function of the kinds of cities that we shape.
The history, of course, of Chinese cities is robust.
They wanted us to test the alternative to sprawl in several cities across China.
And quite frankly, cities would function better.
But the real bottom line is that walking, biking and transit are the way cities and communities thrive.
Building in-person interaction into our cities, into our workplaces, into our agendas bolsters the immune system, sends feel-good hormones surging through the bloodstream and brain and helps us live longer.
Now, reality isn't that drastic, but we do have severe segregations in many cities and towns, and we have plenty of evidence of biased policing and justice system data.
Can we physically co-locate our people who are working in different buildings, different cities or even different countries today?
As a species, we dig and scrape the Earth for resources, we produce energy, we raise animals and cultivate crops for food, we build cities, we move around, we create waste.
So the overview perspective can be incredibly helpful to help us understand how cities function and how we can devise smarter solutions for urban planning, and this will become only more relevant as it is expected that 4.9 billion people will live in cities around the world by the year 2030.
Can we make floating cities? Can we generate electricity from the change in tides?
Third, ems are crammed together in a small number of very dense cities.
So at em speeds, physical travel feels really painfully slow, so most em cities are self-sufficient, most war is cyber war, and most of the rest of the earth away from the em cities is left to the humans, because the ems really aren't that interested in it.
Sometimes I think postcolonial cities are like the children of the two least-favorite wives, who are constantly being asked, "Ah, why can't you be more like your sister?" (Laughter) The "why" of cities is largely the same, no matter where they are: an advantageous location that makes trade and administration possible; the potential for scalable opportunities for the skilled and unskilled alike; a popular willingness to be in constant flux and, of course, resilience.
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