2. Welcome, everybody, to diesel, thank you so much for coming out tonight. We would like to welcome monica smith, institute of the environment and sustainability at ucla, she holds the chair in indian studies, field work in egypt, england, tu any tunisa, bang lad bangladesh and mad gas car. Monica l. Person to write about the book about concentration into cities, she also has a guest for vivid writing that will make come the life, please join me in welcoming monica l. Smith thank you for being here, great to see family and friends altogether for this evening and has been amazing day for me and i have many people to thank, i would like to say a few words about city that are essential with modern lives that we cant live with them and we cant live without them sometimes but with more than half of the worlds population living in cities and the percentage scheduled to go as time goes by, seems to be an amazing opportunity to think about the sciences of cities and the archaeology of cities
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