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Don’t Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy

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The world’s 567,000 mayors should be poaching each other’s good ideas, not reinventing the wheel. Cities around the world may all be struggling with the same problems, from building affordable housing to boosting internet access, but a lack of dialogue means that local governments rarely copy each other’s successful ideas. The world’s “567,000 mayors are reinventing the wheel, every single one of them with everything” they do, says Sascha Havemeyer, general director of Living Labs Global, a Copenhagen-based non-profit that encourages collaboration among the world’s cities.
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