What gives our cities their vitality, attraction, upsides and downsides? How do walkable cities acquire their sociable character? What is it about cities that attracts people to live in them, despite their downsides? There is a density of social interaction afforded by crowding people into compact urban spaces. Cities do change you – and you won’t even know it. The life you have, the way you think about the future and the past will change if you are living in the city. Greater competition for resources subtly alters our behaviour in ways that we are hardly aware of, even the pace at which we
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