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INTRO TITLE MONTAGE WITH MUSIC
LADY BARBARA JUDGE: It will be beautiful. It would have wide parks and avenues.
It would be green but it would have benches, with a lot of people in the benches talking to each other.
It would have a lot of people doing volunteer work -- older people, keeping the
city beautiful and clean -- and it would have a lot of younger people volunteering as well,
mixing the ages and the classes in order to have one goal; which is to make it a better city.
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MICHAEL KEITH: If I was to reimagine the city for the 21st century, it would be an open city
a reflexive city and a flexible city. We know that cities make some things invisible
as well as other things visible. What that means is that cities that work draw on both
the hidden and the revealed. They draw on the connections between people. They draw
on the links that are global but also the links that are local.
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SASKIA SASSEN: If I imagined a city--a city that I would really say "yes, this is a city!"
though I think cities are enormously variable and that's part of their reality in a way.
I would say a city that has very diverse neighborhoods, very diverse neighborhood sub-economies and cultures.
That has a center that is the center of everybody. Where people know that we're welcome.
That has the street, that indeterminate space that is very active. Not just the piazza
with its ritualized practices which inevitably excludes newcomers and excludes those who
don't belong. But the street, like the streets of Mumbai (laughs) are an example.
But it would also be a city -- and this is critical -- where the knowledge that resides in many
different actors and spaces in the city, including a homeless person. That that knowledge is
articulated into some kind of reservoir or an urban knowledge capital that the knowledge
of the homeless person also matters.
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ANIL MENON: Well the future city, whenever I talk to people, whether in emerging or in
developed markets, anytime you talk about technology they immediately have this notion
that it's about beautiful buildings and difficult and more expensive buildings and I always
tell people it's not. The future city will look approximately similar to where it is today.
A lot of the areas where services will change will be behind the scenes.
It will be a new operation center, it will be a new way of managing cities, just as new ways of
building cities. So I don't think the city of the future will look that much different.
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MATHIEU LEFEVRE: My dream city has, I think, three basic features. It's creative and dynamic. It's a buzzing city and Sao Paulo is a great example. Here you stand on any street corner
and you feel the energy of the city, and you feel this creativity. That for me is really central
to my dream city. My dream city is inclusive, that is extremely important.
You can't have a great city for the few, it has to be for as many people as possible. So my
dream city is an open city, a welcoming city. A city without walls or barriers.
The third aspect of my dream city is it's respectful. It's respectful of its environment. It's respectful
of its people. It's respectful of the companies, the organizations, the chefs, the restaurateurs,
the taxi driver. Just a city where people respect one another.
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FAHD AL RASHEED: I don't want a grand city. What I want is a city that respects me.
I want a city that is able to accommodate my needs but also to allow me to fulfill my dreams.
I want some things that are simple. I want to be able to walk on a clean street.
I want to be able to walk in a clean environment and a place that has good healthcare and education for my children.
It's actually not very hard.
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WIM ELFRINK: So the city I want to live is -- I have three priorities. First,
I want to be secure. Secondly, I want to have interesting work. Third, it should be a fantastic place
for my children to grow. To be educated, to have access. Next to that, if I have those basics,
then I also want to have some culture. I want to be able to visit places -- opera,
music, recreate, sports. So, it's the basics, on top of that I want to have all the things
that make life so interesting.
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DANIEL LIBESKIND: My dream city is a child standing in a city and saying, you know,
I can be and do anything I want in this city.
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