What If We Still Lived in the World of Cities Rather than Nation-states?

In the series of starving games written by Suzanne Colins, there are 12 fields with their own characteristics. The twelfth district is known for mining, so most people are miners in this area. Third, its area includes a large area of ​​wood-specialized forest. The story suggests that if the city still lives in the form of a city or region, the city will focus on one production. There will be many problems. People rarely live beyond the poverty line, economic growth is slow.

We live in this era of the city. The scale and speed of global urbanization is never more than ever. 50% of the world population live in cities. Cities make up 80% of the world's GDP growth rate. 42 cities are one of 100 economic countries (countries, cities, enterprises) with the world's most economical output. Tokyo is ranked 14th in Saudi Arabia and Canada and other countries. Immediately after New York the 19th century continues, its economy is bigger than Iran. There are three main reasons why the importance of urban economy is increasing. First of all, in the coming decades, 2 billion people will emigrate to cities. Most of the immigrants in the world also move to cities. Second, more people in the city mean that more potential customers need more digital services. As more and more potential consumers live in cities, more and more people will serve in urban areas.

According to Katz, the world surpasses the nation state. We are in the era when the city has new energy. He told me that I have a big opportunity to use their economic and economic advantages to increase their status and effectiveness to them. I'm used to thinking about power in two alternative ways: you have it or you do not have it. However, according to Mr. Katz's opinion, the city is not completely independent from the nation state because there is something in the middle, but they are not asking them. A network of institutions and subjects that creates economies. The power of the 21st century belongs to problem solvers. The government discusses cities and acts to act in cities. More power is brought from the city, not from the country.

We are still in the narrow national sovereignty paradigm of the 17th century. However, when the nation state truly entered into their own country in the 1600s, less than 1 percent of the world's population lived in one city. Today is 54%. By 2050, it will be close to 70%. The world has changed. We have 193 national citizens, but it is easy for many cities to compete with power and influence. - Robert Muggah We generally think accelerating urbanization is a powerful indicator of economic growth. The average city size and economic growth research of Susanne A. Frick and Andrés Rodríguez Pose shows that developing countries are opposed although there is a positive correlation between city size and average economic growth. If it is often associated with negative growth, there is no significant correlation between urban growth and economic development in developing countries.