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Asian countries are essentially giving tens of thousands of top minds the opportunities and incentives to tackle today’s most pressing challenges, such as developing cost-effective sustainable-energy solutions, ensuring affordable health care for aging populations, and improving the quality of life in overcrowded cities.
And it might even persuade some angry, poor Trump supporters to recognize that his pseudo-populism is not about helping the left-behind folks in Rust Belt cities and rural hinterlands.
The recently elected mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, made the issue the centerpiece of his campaign, repeatedly referring to a “tale of two cities” and an “inequality crisis.”
The anger that has poured onto the streets of Delhi and many other Indian cities was fueled by a great accumulated discontent – at the bestial rape and murder of that still-unnamed woman, yes, but also at pervasive public and private corruption, the absence of governance and accountability, and much more.
And parts of the country are more similar to sections of troubled “developing” countries than to China’s showplace cities.
Many countries are already testing the technologies and policies needed to bring energy to rural areas and growing cities.
And the great trading cities of Gdansk, Seville, and Venice maintained links far beyond the borders of today’s EU.
Several French coastal cities have also banned the burkini, the full-body swimsuit some Muslim women wear to the beach.
In February 2011, peaceful protests were staged in Syria’s major cities, amid the region-wide phenomenon dubbed the “Arab Spring.”
At their worst, cities are slums, places where the social constraints of the village are loosened, people can misbehave in anonymity, and poor and unemployed people live in squalor.
Most cities have grown through evolution, from unpremeditated beginnings.
So, perhaps cities are the right place and have the right scale for massive social change.
This does not mean that national governments are irrelevant, or that they no longer hold life-and-death power over people’s lives; but cities make more of a difference in people's daily lives.
Especially in a world where many of the big things – trade, technology, legal regimes – are globalized, most of the small things are actually happening in cities.
By 2050, seven out of ten human beings will live in cities, up from about 50% now and barely 14% in 1900.
But cities still often operate in a pre-market way.
On the other hand, cities are increasingly behaving like companies, becoming intimately involved in their citizens’ quality of life, and, in an increasingly mobile world, competing for “customers.”
Despite registration systems such as those in Russia and China that restrict movement, people can come and go from cities much more freely than they can cross national borders.
Meanwhile, cities can be both more flexible and more arbitrary, and compete on terms not available to legislatively restricted national governments.
Paul Romer, a former Stanford University economist best known for his Charter City initiative, has a scheme for building new cities from scratch – and using competition to spread the benefits to old cities over time.
Most cities evolved blindly, and have ended up semi-workable, whereas a city that is started from scratch can, in theory, benefit from intelligent design.
While Romer’s formula is complex, his charter cities will be subject to the ultimate form of accountability: they will succeed only if they can attract investors and citizens who want to live and work there.
The goal is not perfection in a single city, but more effective innovation and competition, so that the best cities prosper and other cities emulate them.
There are enough mobile people that one city’s success won’t harm others; on the contrary, it is more likely to encourage existing cities to change, just as new market entrants force incumbents to improve.
A modern nation whose military information is corrupted or disarmed - its satellites flying out of their orbits, its computer screens foaming with nonsense, its missiles curving back to strike its own cities - could be as thoroughly humbled as one smashed by physical bombs.
More than other American cities, New York’s population is always churning.
This will aggravate Asia’s already serious water problem, which is becoming particularly serious in cities, owing to rapid urbanization.
It is likely that Iranian teams have been working on the mechanics of a nuclear explosive device, at least at the blueprint stage, and the country is also developing ballistic missiles that would bring many regional capitals within range of a nuclear attack – Israeli cities, of course, being the obvious targets.
And our cities will be cleaner, quieter, and more pleasant places to live as a result.
Photos and video clips of police beating civilians in Tehran and other cities have been disseminated on the Internet.
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