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Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development; Director of the Oxford Martin Programmes on Technological and Economic Change, The Future of Work and the Future of Development, University of Oxford

Cities are central to our future – they have the power to make, or break, society's advances

Dharavi slum in India. Billions of people live in terrible conditions in the world's cities. Punit Paranje/AFP via Getty Images

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.

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