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Did Cities Fail Us?
The same imbalance can be found in many other fields: decades of work on smart cities largely ignored an understanding of the social dynamics of cities. This meant that although the parts of the smart city that dealt with physical things worked, those that involved hu-mans generally didn’t or were rejected.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Cities Are a Merry-Go-Round (But Lack Community)
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African-American families seeking freedom and good jobs participated in the Great Migration, moving en masse from the rural South to cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, and Milwaukee. When they arrived in those cities, they were crowded into urban ghettos, and the vast majority depended on landlords for housing.17 Ghetto landlords had a segregated a
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The American health care crisis is, at its heart, an urban design crisis. To get a sense for the toll our car-centric infrastructure has taken on our physical and mental well-being: