The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.
All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.
Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.
When you look at a city, you know, it looks so unique. You feel this kind of uniqueness, you know, and especially if you go from a big city to a small city or if you go from one country to another. Cities look very different, often. They even feel very different. You know, and they are, of course. They certainly are.
Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by having cities. That's where they - all these problems come from.
The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer function... vertical sprawl.
Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.
The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.
Cities are about juxtaposition.