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Johanna Hoffman: Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Foster Resilience and Co-create the Cities We Need

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What's the Good News About Cities?

Every city has qualities that are universal, like the distance you and I can walk. That's what's wonderful about cities. But there are different categories of cities now. And I've broken them into three. They are framed around what I see as the biggest challenges. One is low income sprawl. High density sprawl sounds like an oxymoron, but China has perfected this. It's a kind of landscape that can be only sustained by massive wealth.

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