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Why a Real City Is Messy, and What NOT to Do About It

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Sinopsis

The professor of economics, Sandford Ikeda, will explain the nature and significance of cities, emphasizing the messiness of them and why this is necessary to function and be economically valuable. Ikeda based his work in the urbanist Jane Jacobs, one of the most important thinkers in cities and economics. He says that cities may be messy places, polluted, crowded, with poverty, crime, and a lot of problems. But besides that, these are the places where people come looking for opportunities, where ideas are born and entrepreneurs make discoveries. "The city is not a man-made thing, certainly people of all kinds operate in the city, help to build the city, make it what it is, but none of those elements or groups of individuals can construct the city, at least if what we are talking about is a living city.” He shares that these problems cities have help creativity and innovation take place, causing a feeling of opportunity in people to migrate so they can grow and change along with the city because these pla