Cities are increasingly becoming important as players on the national stage, bypassing National Governments when necessary, to look to each other for solutions to global problems. Affirmedd city leaders their support for what had originally been an agreement among nations, the paris climate accord. Is not an outlier in its city to city coordination. Quite the opposite. It is happening on issues of inclusion, immigration, health, and human rights, and so many other critical issues. Extraordinary is perhaps the wrong word to describe this trend. Direct city to city coordination is emerging and maturing and becoming wonderfully ordinary. Why is this happening . The answer is that urbanization is the most consequential force shaping our political order in the century. Undoubtedly the most dynamic force. The than 500 cities around world now has a population of more than one million people. Is not quitec capture the staggering pace at which cities are growing. World0, one third of the lived
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