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#71: Nate Hagens - Planning for 'The Great Simplification' of Cities

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The Implications of Simplification for Cities

Cities are fully dependent on large scale amounts of energy inputs. All the food everything comes in through the the arteries and veins of global regional local supply chains and transportation hubs all of that requires energy. In ten or twenty years from now cities won't be able to afford every person has their own car sort of future. Public transport will have to become a bigger part of city life than it is today. The average American meal travels 1400 miles to get there because of the way food is distributed traveled 1400 miles  - unsustainable with higher uh much higher energy cost and a little bit less globalization i'm not an expert on cities per se but i think for those architects and city planners listening to this

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