The sickness at the heart of modern cities is clear. But what's the cure?
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prevalence 传播，普及
epidemic 流行的
city-dweller 城市居民
open sewer 污水明沟
filthy street 污秽的街道
soot-laden air 充满煤灰的空气
rife with 富于，充满
That world has been turned completely upside down. Cities have come back and poverty has shifted to the suburbs – a process which has been dubbed the “great inversion”. Today’s great cities are engines of technological innovation and economic growth; they are cleaner, greener and safer than many suburbs and rural areas, and much more productive.
But if our cities are experiencing a dramatic resurgence, inequality is also growing at a fantastic pace. Our economic geography is deeply polarised, and the fault lines run not just between cities and suburbs, but between comparatively rich cities and comparatively poor ones – and between the more or less advantaged and disadvantaged neighbourhoods within them.
upside down 上下颠倒
dub 复制，敲打
resurgence 复活，再现
polarise 极化
the fault line 断层线
Back in 2012, my Martin Prosperity Institute colleague Charlotta Mellander and I created a Metro Health Index for the US, using levels of smoking and obesity as proxies for healthiness. Comparatively healthy places, we found, were more urban and diverse, and generally had post-industrial economic structures. A strong hi-tech presence was a harbinger of better health; a dependence on older manufacturing industries was associated with poorer health. Metros with higher incomes, higher levels of education and greater concentrations of the creative class were healthier than those where less well-educated, working-class occupations predominated.
But urban structure and commuting styles also played a role. Denser metros where greater shares of residents walked or biked to work were healthier than more sprawling metros where larger shares of people drove to work by themselves. The way we live – not just what we eat and how much we exercise – appears to play a big role in how healthy we are.obesity 肥胖
proxies 代理
harbinger 先驱
metros 都市人
predominate 支配，主宰
sprawling 蔓生的
小伙伴们，to be continued~~
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