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The question is: Is any of this true for
cities
and companies?
But they are networks, and the most important network of
cities
is you.
And here's scaling of
cities.
This, no doubt, is the reason why a million people a week are gathering in
cities.
Always, all the data shows it's the same, despite the fact that these
cities
have evolved independently.
On the right is the speed of walking in a bunch of European cities, showing that increase.
That would be bad for economies and
cities.
And in fact, if you compare it to data, it fits very well with the development of
cities
and economies.
In order to provide the kind of energy that it would take for eight billion people living in
cities
that are even somewhat like the
cities
that those of us in the global North live in today, we would have to generate an absolutely astonishing amount of energy.
The solution, in fact, may be closer to hand than we think, because all of those
cities
we're building are opportunities.
Our cities, I would put to you, are stockpiles of these surplus capacities.
And if we're going to really, truly become sustainable cities, we need to think a little differently.
Do they allow for pollination, pollinator pathways that bees and butterflies and such can come back into our
cities?
And if we have another eight billion or seven billion, or six billion, even, people, living on a planet where their
cities
also steal the future, we're going to run out of future really fast.
But if we think differently, I think that, in fact, we can have
cities
that are not only zero emissions, but have unlimited possibilities as well.
And if we're lucky, the result will be revivified town centers and neighborhood centers in our existing towns and
cities.
And by the way, our towns and
cities
are where they are, and grew where they were because they occupy all the important sites.
Planetary systems outside our own are like distant
cities
whose lights we can see twinkling, but whose streets we can't walk.
It used to be that Paris and London and New York were the largest
cities.
So some people go to places like Shanghai but most go to the squatter
cities
where aesthetics rule.
Education is the main event that can happen in
cities.
There's no unemployment in squatter
cities.
So here's the first punch line:
cities
have defused the population bomb.
In cities, 80 percent of kids go to college.
For those who do return back to the countryside, they find themselves very welcome locally, because with the knowledge, skills and networks they have learned in the cities, with the assistance of the Internet, they're able to create more jobs, upgrade local agriculture and create new business in the less developed market.
I call them Freudian
cities.
Another Detroit that's more hopeful, more innovative, and may just provide some of the answers to
cities
struggling to reinvent themselves everywhere.
It's where, for months, one of my neighbors left her front door unlocked in one of the most violent and dangerous
cities
in America so I could have a shower whenever I needed to go to work, as I didn't yet have one.
For me, it means helping others to raise the beams on their own formerly abandoned houses, or helping to educate those with privilege, now increasingly moving into cities, how we might come in and support rather than stress existing communities.
I live it right now in a neighborhood called Poletown in one of the most maligned
cities
in the world.
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