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CITIES OF THE FUTURE

THE WORLD’S GREAT URBAN CENTERS have always been laboratories of living—crowded, often chaotic places where civilization is continually reimagining and reinventing itself. The city is where the future happens first.

As part of Newsweek Next, our ongoing effort to give readers a look at what is over the horizon, this issue introduces the Momentum Awards. Our editorial team and council of experts set out to identify the people, cities and companies that are applying the technology and ideas of the future to solve problems that seem intractable today.

We’ve singled

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