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The plan recognized that cities are in a global marketplace, and that if we're going to continue to grow and thrive and to attract the million more people that are expected to move here, we need to focus on the quality of life and the efficiency of our infrastructure.

For many cities, our streets have been in a kind of suspended animation for generations.

And the maps of violence in most U.S. cities looked like this.

Many of the major cities in the U.S., including New York City and Baltimore and Kansas City, their health departments are running this now.

You know, we say, half the world is living in cities.

Well, in America, that living in cities, for many of them, they're living in cities still where they're dependent on that automobile.

And what I work for, and to do, is to make our cities more walkable.

While most other cities were growing an undifferentiated spare tire of sprawl, they instituted an urban growth boundary.

While most cities were reaming out their roads, removing parallel parking and trees in order to flow more traffic, they instituted a skinny streets program.

And while most cities were investing in more roads and more highways, they actually invested in bicycling and in walking.

I believe that this American healthcare crisis that we've all heard about is an urban design crisis, and that the design of our cities lies at the cure.

Oh, so cities make us safer because we're driving less?

If we continue to pile upon ourselves in cities, as they do in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as they are in Europe and take to eating one another as they do there."

If you look at any carbon map, because we map it per square mile, any carbon map of the U.S., it looks like a night sky satellite photo of the U.S., hottest in the cities, cooler in the suburbs, dark, peaceful in the countryside.

If you love nature, the best thing you can do is stay the heck away from it, move to a city, and the denser the better, and the denser cities like Manhattan are the cities that perform the best.

Canadian cities, they consume half the gasoline of American cities.

European cities consume half as much again.

And it's very interesting to see that the highest-ranking American city, Honolulu, number 28, is followed by kind of the usual suspects of Seattle and Boston and all walkable cities.

The driving cities in the Sun Belt, the Dallases and the Phoenixes and, sorry, Atlanta, these cities are not appearing on the list.

The Canadian cities like Vancouver, where again, they're burning half the fuel.

And then it's usually won by cities where they speak German, like Dusseldorf or Vienna, where they're burning, again, half as much fuel.

But particularly here in America, we are polluting so much because we're throwing away our time and our money and our lives on the highway, then these two problems would seem to share the same solution, which is to make our cities more walkable.

Doing so isn't easy, but it can be done, it has been done, and it's being done now in more than a few cities, around the globe and in our country.

Throughout my career, I've been fortunate enough to work with many of the great international architects, documenting their work and observing how their designs have the capacity to influence the cities in which they sit.

I think of new cities like Dubai or ancient cities like Rome with Zaha Hadid's incredible MAXXI museum, or like right here in New York with the High Line, a city which has been so much influenced by the development of this.

The third number is 12: That's the number of cities in the world that had a million or more people when my grandmother was born.

So just 12 cities.

Now there are 500 cities, nearly, with a million people or more in them.

And if you look at the century from 1950 to 2050, that's the century when we build all the world's cities, the century that we're in the middle of right now.

We're building cities like never before, bringing people out of poverty like never before, and changing the climate like never before.

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