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Cites develop and change. Fundamental to the role of changing cities is space. Cities are places with a lack of space, or at least less space than the countryside. This book is about creating more space in cites for more economic and social life to occur with lower travel time costs and many enumerated co-benefits.

This book will challenge the current engineering design of cities to refocus, deliberately, around high-capacity transportation nodes. The parts of city life urban planning should and must have a role in is in the public realm, the street, the parks and the city-shaping benefits of mass transit. As such, this book anticipates better living with better health for more people most of the time.

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    ‘Stadluft macht frei’, a German phrase from the Middle Ages (500 to 1500 CE) denoting that a serf could gain freedom from their bonds to a prince or lord if they lived in a city for a year and a day.

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    Boids; theory tells us that motion—however temporal in an urban setting—can be described as: (1) Collision Avoidance: avoid collisions with nearby flockmates (or, avoid conflict), (2) Velocity Matching: attempt to match velocity with nearby flockmates (or, keeping up), (3) Flock Centering: attempt to stay close to nearby flockmates (or, staying current).

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    Leo Tolstoy (1878). Anna Kerenina. Moscow.

  4. 4.

    While, certainly, there are grave disparities in access to education or health, the data provided by Professor Hans Rosling at Gapminder indicates trends towards longer and better lives worldwide: https://www.gapminder.org/data/.

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