Cities are complex systems - let's start looking at them that way

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© blinkblink1 – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>The way we design our cities needs a serious rethink. After thousands of years of progress in urban development, we plateaued some 60 years ago. Cities are not safer, healthier, more efficient, or more equitable. They are getting worse on these measures.