Cities are central to our future – they have the power to make, or break, society’s advances
WE live in tumultuous times. In the space of just a few years, we have witnessed a surge in populist politics across the world, a global pandemic, a spike in environmental disasters and a fraying of geopolitical relations demonstrated by the tragic war in Ukraine and escalating tensions over Taiwan. That has all occurred against a backdrop of dramatic technological changes that are fundamentally altering the way we work and relate to one another. Our future is in the balance. Cities will be central to our fate, for two reasons. IAN GOLDIN, Professor of Globalisation and Development; Director of the…