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what is a livable city?

the urban century challenge: livable cities

In 2025, over two-thirds of humanity will live in cities. 
The livability of cities will increasingly determine
the future of humanity and the planet
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The CityLab Seminars provide a forum for academic, business, and community stakeholders to tackle the complex challenge of urbanization and its impact for people and the planet.  Through dynamic conversations about the livability of cities, seminar participants share knowledge, expertise, and innovative strategies from cities around the world while building collaborative partnerships and projects to reinvent distressed, undervalued neighborhoods in their own cities.

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Cities are the vital heart of human culture and commerce, producing most of the world’s wealth of ideas, technology, innovation.  But most of humanity lives in urban areas threatened by congestion, poverty, conflict, and environmental degradation that impede their ability to flourish and realize the full value of their potential. 
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Will the Urban Century usher in a new era of inclusive wealth for human flourishing, 
or a downward spiral of human inequality, deprivation, and despair?

strategies for livable cities

A livable city enables people in the present generation to meet their needs and 
develop their capabilities without compromising the capabilities of future generations.


CityLab is anchored in five key strategies for building livable cities.
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