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Did Cities Fail Us?
Cities quickly became crucibles of inequality, a process that was accelerated by the fact that within cities people were not bound together by the same intimate kinship and social ties that were characteristic of small rural communities. As a result, people living in cities increasingly began to bind their social identity ever more tightly to the w... See more
James Suzman • Work
larger cities tend to exhibit greater economic productivity and expanded access to housing and urban services, which nucleate solutions for sustainable development within their nations. Second, despite these positive consequences, large inequality patterns emerge as access to services is initially expanded.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
In much of San Francisco, you can’t walk twenty feet without seeing a multicolored sign declaring that Black Lives Matter, Kindness Is Everything, and No Human Being Is Illegal. Those signs sit in yards zoned for single families, in communities that organize against efforts to add the new homes that would bring those values closer to reality. San F
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