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Some cities get the outbreak under control and go back to business as usual, only to have a resurgence and return to physical distancing when a new case passes through.

Stalin, Khrushchev and other Soviet leaders forced Russians out to the far east to be in gulags, labor camps, nuclear cities, whatever the case was.

The pressure to build cities, infrastructure and buildings is at its peak, and as a result, there is a massive building boom as well.

Imagine Africa's future cities, but not as vast slums, but the most resilient and the most socially inclusive places on earth.

But when you think that every day for a city the size of London, enough food has to be produced, transported, bought and sold, cooked, eaten, disposed of, and that something similar has to happen every day for every city on earth, it's remarkable that cities get fed at all.

As more of us move into cities, more of us are eating meat, so that a third of the annual grain crop globally now gets fed to animals rather than to us human animals.

By 2050, it's estimated that twice the number of us are going to be living in cities.

As we're moving into cities, the world is also embracing a Western diet.

This is no accident, because agriculture and cities are bound together.

So, if you like, the whole spiritual and physical life of these cities was dominated by the grain and the harvest that sustained them.

This is another thing about food in cities: Once its roots into the city are established, they very rarely move.

To start off with, it makes it possible for the first time to grow cities, really any size and shape, in any place.

And this really is the moment when our relationship, both with food and cities, changes completely.

By making it possible to build cities anywhere and any place, they've actually distanced us from our most important relationship, which is that of us and nature.

And if we do that, we're going to stop seeing cities as big, metropolitan, unproductive blobs, like this.

We can compare these two and hold them in our minds at the same time, that they really are the same place, that there is no way that cities can escape from nature.

And I think this is what we're learning about building cities in the future.

So if you'll allow me a brief epilogue, not about the past, but about 400 years from now, what we're realizing is that cities are habitats for people, and need to supply what people need: a sense of home, food, water, shelter, reproductive resources, and a sense of meaning.

First, we need to change our cities.

By 2050, two thirds of our population will live in cities.

We need green cities.

And that means that there is a one-way transfer of energy from our environment into our homes and cities.

I believe that the only way that it is possible for us to construct genuinely sustainable homes and cities is by connecting them to nature, not insulating them from it.

With the invention of writing, you start getting cities.

Social structure adapts to accommodate this possibility and to harness this productive potential, so you get cities, you know, and you get all the non-zero-sum games you don't think about that are being played across the world.

And if you think, it's permeated our whole culture, even our cities.

If you think of medieval cities, medieval cities the boroughs all have the names of the guilds and professions that lived there.

And there are more than 200 formats, across 50 cities and towns of India.

And this is something that is common to all our big cities.

This is a victory of thousands of users, in hundreds of cities, one user, one edit at a time.

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