But today, finally, after economic reforms, and economic growth,

A small village grew into a large city.

Anza, they're growing up.

The city was there.

It's growing.

It's not exactly a low cost proposition.

So, we're adding a city the size of Seattle every seven days, and most of those cities look more like this than the city that you or I live in.

Last month, he quit his job... as Town Planning Manager.

General Town Planning Manager.

Mr. mayor, you were elected in a campaign to clean up the city.

The market for luxury goods is growing fast.

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And traffic planners all around the world have tried

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She succeeded in getting herself elected as mayor.

A single idea from the human mind... can build cities.

So we said, let's start with that neighborhood cell.

Including Twitter, many Social Network Services are booming up

The Kamo runs through Kyoto.

The city is hosting the fair.

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

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And if you think, it's permeated our whole culture, even our cities.

We can do this.

Vienna is a beautiful city.

With that charter, people will move there.

The real estate market's booming in Rio.

It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities, therefore Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un Indian city.

I think, you know, it's not just in our own country, but really we're exporting the system around the world, and when you look at the data of least developed countries especially in cities, which are growing really rapidly people are eating American processed foods.

Shanghai was a very intriguing city it's exploding on a level that I don't think any city has experienced.

But, what I want to describe to you quickly, is just how the city works.

In August 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and martyrs of Nagasaki

But of course, most journeys that we undertake from day to day are within a city.

A city?

Wait a minute... It is a myth?

So, this is really interesting.

Kyoto and Boston are sister cities.

They have been expanding, urbanization has been expanding, at an exponential rate in the last 200 years so that by the second part of this century, the planet will be completely dominated by cities.

After 9l11, Homeland Security made every city have a lockdown plan.

It's not enough, new sources of energy.

To start off with, it makes it possible for the first time to grow cities, really any size and shape, in any place.