Cities
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Certainly when I'm traveling, especially to the major
cities
of the world, the typical person I meet today will be, let's say, a half-Korean, half-German young woman living in Paris.
They're all also calling cards, almost, for those cities, songs totally linked with their city's identity, and it might be why you probably consider them to be music
cities.
Now, the magical mythical thing, the thing we kind of all love about stories like these is that those
cities
weren't doing anything in particular to make those moments happen.
See, smart cities, music cities, know that thriving nightlife, a creative class, culture is what attracts young, talented people to cities. It's what brings that lightning.
In 2018, thriving music
cities
don't often happen and don't have to happen accidentally.
Many
cities
won't have recording studios like Memphis or a songwriter and publishing scene like Nashville, and that's not a dealbreaker.
Now we talk about food deserts, places in our cities, neighborhoods that have no grocery stores.
Remember, it's that network structure that is creating these emergent topics, and let's say we could take two of them, like
cities
and genetics, and say, well, are there any talks that creatively bridge these two really different disciplines.
In the
cities
cluster, one of the most central was one by Mitch Joachim about ecological cities, and in the genetics cluster, we have a talk about synthetic biology by Craig Venter.
And my suggestion is that we change the subject, that we stop talking about nations, about bordered states, and we start talking about
cities.
Because I think you will find, when we talk about cities, we are talking about the political institutions in which civilization and culture were born.
Not so in those homes known as our towns and
cities
where we live.
Moreover, today, more than half of the world's population live in
cities.
More than three out of four people live in urban institutions, urban places, in
cities
today.
So
cities
are where the action is.
We are an urban species, at home in our
cities.
There are scores of international, inter-city, cross-border institutions, networks of
cities
in which
cities
are already, quite quietly, below the horizon, working together to deal with climate change, to deal with security, to deal with immigration, to deal with all of those tough, interdependent problems that we face.
Well, to understand that, we need to understand why
cities
are special, why mayors are so different than prime ministers and presidents, because my premise is that a mayor and a prime minister are at the opposite ends of a political spectrum.
They have to get things done, they have to put ideology and religion and ethnicity aside and draw their
cities
together.
That's the difference, and the difference has to do with the character of
cities
themselves, because
cities
are profoundly multicultural, open, participatory, democratic, able to work with one another.
When
cities
interact, they interact like this.
Eighty percent of carbon emissions come from cities, which means
cities
are in a position to solve the carbon problem, or most of it, whether or not the states of which they are a part make agreements with one another.
Now it's in hundreds of
cities
around the world.
Pedestrian zones, congestion fees, emission limits in
cities
like California
cities
have, there's lots and lots that
cities
can do even when opaque, stubborn nations refuse to act.
It runs through cities. Democracy was born in the ancient polis.
And in the mountain range are all of the ancient
cities
of that region, so Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron.
They've done some experiments in some major American
cities.
It involves the design of
cities
and the design of city streets.
For the first time in history, most people live in cities, and the U.N. estimates that over the next 40 years, the population is going to double on the planet.
So the design of
cities
is a key issue for our future.
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