Used by Jiang as the dense urban form that concentrates poverty, stress, and biological exposure badly enough to make repeated epidemics structurally likely.
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mega cities
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...food. So, you want to make sure your population, not in cities, but in the countryside, is growing food. Because, first of all, they..."
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Jiang says modern mega-cities are unsustainable because tens of millions of people live together under conditions that make another epidemic only a matter of time.
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"...recurring pattern in human history and the way that we have mega cities it's just um i mean it's not sustainable like these mega..."
"...food. So, you want to make sure your population, not in cities, but in the countryside, is growing food. Because, first of all, they..."
"...that is that it is silly that we have so many mega cities around the world uh think about how many cities with 10..."
"...is. Over urbanization. Where everyone from the countryside. Flocks to the city. And you have these mega cities. Right now in the western world...."
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