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FAHD AL RASHEED Well, it's a big question. Because cities have a city view.
They have 2 million, 3 million, 10 million, 15 million people -- so everyone
looks at it sort of from the mayor's standpoint, but really we need to flip the lens and look at it
from the person standpoint. You're not going to be able to do that.
It's really a theoretical issue at this stage. You have to give the residents of the city
the apps to make them force you as a city government to become a human city.
They have to be the supervisor on the street, they have to be able to tell you what they want.
They have to tell you how to improve -- come up with ideas. So, you have to them if you will
- app the citizen to create a human city.
MICHAEL KEITH: The human city today brings together neighborhoods of intense sociability.
With city districts that are almost economies in their own right.
With metropolitan urban regions that are often as big, in economic and sometimes demographic terms, as countries.
So if you have a city that is over 20 million people, you need to think about scale jumping.
You need to think about the metropolitan region, the city district and the neighborhood --
all of which are human, they are the human city, but the human city at different geographical scales.
AROMAR REVI: It is the humane city. The city that is able to reach out to all its citizens.
A city that establishes the minimal levels of services and access to everybody.
So, universal access -- to food, to water, to sanitation, to education, to healthcare.
Those are basic entitlements that we have never been able to provide to people
both in cities and outside pretty much across the course of history and civilization.
But it's possible for us to do it just now because of the immense productivity of our economic
system. Of course, we are consuming a lot of the world's resources to do that.
So the smart thing of course is how to do that with much less resources.
LADY BARBARA JUDGE: I am very concerned that population is getting older.
That people are forced to retire at 65 or want to -- but they are going to live
till 90. Indeed, people born today are going to live till a hundred. What do we do with
them? What do they do with themselves from 65 to 90? They have to work in order to fulfill
themselves, in order to feel valuable. They need to have something to do. A human city
will find things for people to do.
ANIL MENON: At the end of the day, cities are going to be about people,
and it's about the soul of a city. What makes Paris great. What makes London great, what
makes Mumbai great -- despite all the challenges of Mumbai or Shanghai is the soul of the city.
There is a vibrancy of a city
RAND HINDI: The human city is a city where I feel comfortable living as a person.
And, my personal feeling is that today there's so much constraints on citizens
living in urban areas that it's not the case anymore. And I honestly personally believe
that with the kind of technology we have today, we could have cities that learn and adapt
to people, rather than people adapting to cities. And if this can be done, then you
have a true human city.
ROMI ROY: I focus on urban mobility as my primary focus of work
and almost always I find the focus to be on vehicles. Always, moving cars is the focus
and not necessarily moving people. So I think, in all the fields, if we focus on people then
your cities will start ticking.