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Today, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities, compared to less than 3% in 1800.
True, cities cannot provide the rich sense of community that often characterizes villages and small towns.
But a different form of community evolves in cities.
People often take pride in their cities, and seek to nourish their distinctive civic cultures.
Yet the differences between, say, Beijing and Jerusalem, suggest that cities do have such an ethos.
In fact, many cities have distinctive identities of which their residents are proud.
This matters in part because cities with a clear ethos can better resist globalization’s homogenizing tendencies.
Chinese cities seek to counter uniformity via campaigns to recover their unique “spirit.”
Yet cities like Hangzhou, Portland, and Vancouver take pride in their “green” ethos, and go far beyond national requirements in terms of environmental protection.
But, by infusing us with their unique spirit and identity, our cities may, in fact, help to empower humanity to face the most difficult challenges of the twenty-first century.
Even Iran, where the Revolutionary Guards control roughly one-third of the economy, was affected when the result of the presidential election in 2009 triggered large anti-government protests in Tehran and other major cities.
The association of elites with foreignness, tolerance, and metropolitan cities is nothing new.
Elites often can speak foreign languages, and big cities are traditionally more tolerant and open to mixed populations.
Modern populism – American politicians running, or pretending to run, “against Washington,” or French populists speaking for “deep France” – is invariably hostile to capital cities.
First, the 2012 law was a direct response to the large public demonstrations that began the previous year in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and other Russian cities to protest Vladimir Putin’s decision to stand for a third term as president, his election, and his inauguration.
But there is also a different kind of inequality: in the affordability of homes across cities.
People may be forced out of cities where they have spent their entire lives.
As this year’s Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey shows, there are already massive disparities across major global cities (measured by the ratio of median home prices to median household income).
This year’s survey, which covered 92 cities in nine countries, showed that, as of late 2016, Hong Kong had the least affordable housing, with a price-to-income ratio of 18.1.
Meanwhile, some attractive world cities are quite affordable, relative to incomes.
Maybe the figures for these outlier cities aren’t precise.
They are hard to check, and there must be inconsistencies across cities, countries, and continents.
In some cities, higher-priced homes may tend to turn over more rapidly than in others.
And some cities may be inhabited by larger families, implying bigger houses than in other cities.
The question, then, is why residents of some cities face extremely – even prohibitively – high prices.
Using satellite data for major US cities, the economist Albert Saiz of MIT confirmed that tighter physical constraints – such as surrounding bodies of water or land gradients that make properties unsuitable for extensive building – tend to correlate with higher home prices.
Because of the multiplier effect, small governments and states, and even large cities, can successfully sponsor the kind of demand that fosters a world-class innovation epicenter.
As Africa’s workers seek better opportunities, they are flocking to cities faster than those cities can absorb them, leading to the proliferation of slums in urban areas and a flood of illegal migration to the West.
The response to terrorism should be to reaffirm the value of the rule of law over arbitrary repression, and of the diversity that is the hallmark of Europe’s cities, particularly London and Paris, but increasingly many others across the Union.
Even if some of the machinations were carried out in other cities, there is no escaping the fact that Libor is the London Interbank Offered Rate.
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