{"id":33990,"date":"2020-01-01T18:08:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T23:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/?p=33990"},"modified":"2020-02-19T08:19:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T13:19:28","slug":"highlights-from-the-nature-of-cities-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/2020\/01\/01\/highlights-from-the-nature-of-cities-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights from The Nature of Cities in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s post celebrates some of the highlights from TNOC writing in\u00a02019. These contributions\u2014originating around the world\u2014were one or more of widely read, offering novel points of view, and\/or somehow disruptive in a useful\u00a0way. All 1000+ TNOC essays and roundtables are worthwhile reads, of course, but what follows\u00a0will give you a taste\u00a0of 2019’s key and diverse content.<\/p>\n

Check out highlights from previous years: 2018,<\/a> 2017<\/a>,\u00a02016<\/a>, 2015<\/a>, 2014<\/a>, 2013<\/a>, 2012<\/a>.<\/blockquote><\/figure>The Nature of Cities advanced in a number of ways in 2019. The number of contributors has grown to almost 800, and we published 150+ long-form essays, reviews, and global roundtables.<\/p>\n

A key event for TNOC in 2019 was The Nature of Cities Summit<\/a> in Paris. Attended by almost 400 people from 60 countries, TNOC Summit was a major undertaking to model a new collaborative spirit in urbanism. We continue to publish outputs from Summit. You can see them here<\/a>, along with the Summit report. Planning for the next Summit is underway, and will be announced soon.<\/p>\n

The Stories of the Nature of Cities 2099<\/a> prize for Flash Fiction attracted 1200 entries from 116 countries. We awarded seven top prizes\u2014women from the U.S., Canada, and India\u2014and in May 2019 we published a book of 57 stories from 21 countries: A Flash of Silver Green<\/em><\/a>. The 2020 version of the prize<\/a> has just completed accepting submissions\u2014over 1,000 from 99 countries\u2014and we will produce a new book of collected stories early in 2021.<\/p>\n

In essays, roundtables, and reviews we continue to seek the frontiers of thought found at the boundaries of urban ecology, community, design, planning, and art. Importantly, we’ve attracted more and more readers: over a million people have visited TNOC. and in 2019 we had readers\u00a0from\u00a03,500+\u00a0cities in 150+\u00a0countries.<\/p>\n

Thank you. We hope to see you again in 2020.<\/p>\n

(Banner photo is by Paris architect Vincent Callibaut.)<\/p>\n

Donate to TNOC<\/h3>\n

TNOC is a public charity, a non-profit [501(c)3] organization in the United States, with sister organizations in Dublin (TNOC Europe) and Paris (TNOC France). We rely on private contributions and grants to support our work, and to demonstrate grassroots support to our organizational funders. No pay-wall exists in front of TNOC content. So, if you can, please help support us. Click\u00a0here\u00a0to help.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Nature of Cities Summit<\/h3>\n

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The Nature of Cities (TNOC)\u00a0Summit<\/a>, held in Paris from 4-7 June 2019, brought together a unique diversity of thought- leaders and practitioners to catalyze a cross- disciplinary movement for collaborative green cities.\u00a0The Summit convened diverse voices and actors,\u00a0designing interactive sessions to build new\u00a0connections and propel change\u2014both on an\u00a0individual and organizational level. Participants ranged from artists, writers, and activists to people working in academia, urban planning, policy, and practice.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>A Flash of\u00a0Silver Green<\/h3>\n

We asked people to imagine future cities, in the form of a flash or short fiction contest. Our original prompt read like this: What are the stories of people and nature in cities in 2099? What will cities be like to live in?<\/p>\n

Of 1,200 submissions from 116 countries,\u00a057 from 21 countries were collected in this book, including the seven that we judged to be prize-winners, authored by women from the United States, Canada, and India. You can get a copy of\u00a0A Flash of Silver Green <\/em>directly\u00a0from the publisher<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Roundtables<\/h3>\n
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Photo: Cecilia Herzog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How is the concept of \u201cstewardship\u201d and \u201ccare for local environments\u201d expressed around the world?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This roundtable was inspired by “seed session” workshop \u201cTalk, Map, Act\u201d at the TNOC Summit where we gathered diverse stories of engagement with stewardship from all around the world.\u00a0To continue this journey we explore the words people use for the constellation of activities suggested by the English word \u201cstewardship\u201d. So, we asked 25 practitioners\u2014scientists, activists, artists, planners, practitioners\u2014from five continents: in your context and experience, what is the word or phrase used for the concept of \u201cactively taking care of things, such as the environment\u201d?\u00a0The answers are all over the map. In many languages, there is no direct translation to the English word \u201cstewardship\u201d. But there are many phrases that convey the activity of care\u2014activities that in many countries are newly developing and advancing.<\/p>\n

This Roundtable was curated by Lindsay Campbell, Erika Svendsen, and Michelle Johnson of the U.S. Forest Service.<\/p>\n

With contributions from: Nathalie Blanc, Paris; Lindsay Campbell, New York; Zorina Colasero, Puerto Princesa City; Kirk Deitschman, Waim\u0101nalo; Johan Enqvist, Cape Town; Emilio Fantin, Bologna; Artur Jerzy Filip, Warsaw; Carlo Beneitez Gomez, Puerto Princesa City; Cecilia Herzog, Rio de Janeiro; Michelle Johnson, New York; Kevin Lunzalu, Nairobi; Patrick Lydon, Osaka; Romina Magtanong, Puerto Princesa City; Heather McMillen, Honolulu; Ranjini Murali, Bangalore; Harini Nagendra, Bangalore; Jean Ferus Niyomwungeri, Kigali; Jean Palma, Manila; Beatriz Ruizpalacios, Mexico City; Huda Shaka, Dubai; Erika Svendsen, New York; Abdallah Tawfic, Cairo; Diana Wiesner, Bogot\u00e1; Fish Yu, Shenzhen<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photo: Ana Faggi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What prevents us from creating cities that are better for people and nature? It doesn\u2019t seem like a lack of knowledge\u2014don\u2019t we have enough research knowledge to act on better policy? So, what is the impediment?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a feeling among many that in broad brush, at least, we know what we need to do to make cities better for people and nature. Yet, cities often, even typically, lag in their efforts to be more resilient, sustainable, livable, and just through greening. Why?<\/p>\n

There are four threads in the responses: (1) research and data, and perhaps even \u201cknowledge\u201d is, by itself, insufficient; (2) while we mostly have enough research knowledge to act, it doesn\u2019t necessarily apply everywhere, as we lack knowledge applicable to the global south; (3) we all, including scientists, have to become activists for change toward better cities; (4) we need transparency and engagement across sectors of the public realm.<\/p>\n

With contributions from: Adrian Benepe, New York; Paul Downton, Melbourne; Ana Faggi, Buenos Aires; Sumetee Gajjar, Cape Town; Russell Galt, Edinburgh; Rob McDonald, Washington; Huda Shaka, Dubai; Vivek Shandas, Portland; Phil Silva, New York; Naomi Tsur, Jerusalem<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photo: Giles Ashford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What I mean when I talk about collaboration. What is a specific experience collaborating on a project with someone from a different discipline or \u201cway of knowing\u201d?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

When I first encountered \u201curban ecology\u201d, and urbanism generally, what attracted me was the essential collaborativeness of cities and their design\u2014that cities are, or at least should be, collaborative creations. Indeed, this is the fundamental (and ideally fun) and foundational idea of TNOC: let\u2019s put different types of people into the same space and see what emerges. So, we asked a collection of TNOC contributors\u2014scientists, artists, planners, designers, engineers, policy makers\u2014about their own experience with collaboration. It is a rich vein of response, and some threads stand out about the collaborative experience: It challenges us to trust. It is often surprising. It is often difficult. Sometimes there is tension. It takes time. It demands personal growth. It requires acknowledgment of others. It asks us to question our own points of view. It thrives in the in-between spaces. There is no one way. It is an act of transformation.<\/p>\n

With contributions from: Pippin Anderson, Cape Town; Carmen Bouyer, Paris; Lindsay Campbell, New York; Gillian Dick, Glasgow; Lonny Grafman, Arcata; Eduardo Guerrero, Bogot\u00e1; Britt Gwinner, Washington; Keitaro Ito, Kyushu; Madhusudan Katti, Raleigh; Jessica Kavonic, Cape Town; Yvonne Lynch, San Sebastian; Mary Mattingly, New York; Brian McGrath, New York; Tischa Mu\u00f1oz-Erikson, R\u00edo Piedras; Jean Palma, Manila; Diane Pataki, Salt Lake City; Bruce Roll, Portland; Wilson Ramirez, Bogot\u00e1; David Simon, Gothenburg; Tomomi Sudo, Kyushu; Dimitra Xidous, Dublin<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>National Park City: What if your city were a National Park City, analogous to what London created? What it would be like? What would it take to accomplish?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

London\u2019s communities have recognized and celebrated the role of the network of green and blue spaces in the life of the city in the form of a grassroots campaign to make London the first National Park City. The six year campaign saw London National Park City launched in 2019. Other cities will follow. Can this idea be applied in other cities? How? We asked a variety of people involved in parks and open space around the world. Some are in cities actively contemplating such a national park city approach. For others, it was a new idea. The London National Park City idea is both a formal recognition of the scope and benefits of the macro-park that is all London\u2019s open spaces, and also a call for London\u2019s population to see and get engaged with their myriad green spaces.<\/p>\n

This Roundtable was curated by Daniel Ravel-Ellison and Alison Barnes.<\/p>\n

With contributions from: M\u00e9lin\u00e9 Baronian, Versailles; Maud Bernard-Verdier, Berlin; Ioana Biris, Amsterdam; Timothy Blatch, Cape Town; Aletta Bonn, Berlin; Geoff Canham, Tauranga; Samarth Das, Mumbai; Gillian Dick, Glasgow; Luis Antonio Romahn Diez, Merida; Ana Faggi, Buenos Aires; Eduardo Guerrero, Bogot\u00e1; Sue Hilder, Glasgow; Mike Houck, Portland; Sophie Lokatis, Berlin; Scott Martin, Louisville; Sebastian Miguel, Buenos Aires; Gareth Moore-Jones, Ohope Beach; Rob Pirani, New York; Julie Procter, Stirling; Tom Rozendal, Breda; Snorri Sigurdsson, Reykjav\u00edk; Lynn Wilson, Victoria<\/em><\/p>\n

Essays<\/h3>\n
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Ecological City, one of many imaginative designs by this Paris architect. Image: Vincent Callibaut<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Smart vs Green: Technology Paradigms Battle it Out for the Future City<\/strong><\/a>
\nSarah Hinners, Salt Lake City<\/em><\/p>\n

Vision A\u2014The Smart City: The city is an intricate network of digital communications, computations, and connections. Vision B\u2014The Ecological City: The city is an intricate network of living systems interacting with one another, with built structures, and flows of water, materials, organisms, and information. These alternative visions are not necessarily mutually exclusive, of course, but in my experience they are rarely combined in the same conversation or planning process.<\/p>\n

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A biosolar roof in full bloom. Photo: Stuart Connop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mosaic Management: The Missing Ingredient for Biodiversity Innovation in Urban Greenspace Design<\/strong><\/a>
\nStuart Connop and \u00a0Caroline Nash, London<\/em><\/p>\n

As we homogenise and sterilise our rural landscapes with intensive agriculture, and disconnect our populations from nature in shining metropolises, it is more pressing than ever to maximize the potential for urban areas to support wildlife. Innovative urban greenspace design also needs innovative management if our nature-based solutions are to sustain diverse populations of biodiversity in urban areas.<\/p>\n

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Art BioFarm. Photo: Kevin Sloan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Proposals for the Environment and the Future of Cities<\/strong><\/a>
\nKevin Sloan, Dallas-Fort Worth<\/em><\/p>\n

While the suburban mega city is largely the product of unbridled real estate speculation, their existence establishes a new starting point for urban design\u2014hopefully one that produces cities by nature. \u201cForm follows performance\u201d may replace the industrial preoccupation of the twentieth century and its priority for \u201cfunction\u201d that is damaging to the environment. It will take the effort of many, if not everyone\u2019s, hands to get a grip on all the solutions that are needed. It is a purpose and priority on which all should agree.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Metabolic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What Cities Can Learn from Human Bodies<\/strong><\/a>
\nNadine Galle, Amsterdam<\/em><\/p>\n

Urban metabolism is not only a powerful metaphor for better understanding our urban systems, but also the fundamental framework we need for accelerating the transition to sustainable cities. Like human bodies, cities require resources to function. They import or stock up on what they need, consume the resource, and then dispose of what is left over in the form of different types of waste. But one widely accepted definition of urban metabolism does not (yet) exist. Over the course of several generations, different disciplines and schools of thought have used this term to frame a range of findings.<\/p>\n

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Brooklyn Bridge Park. Photo: Adrian Benepe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cities\u2019 Quality of Life, Health, and Sustainability Are Defined by Access to Nearby Parks<\/strong><\/a>
\nAdrian Benepe and Benita Hussain, New York<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible that many planners and civic leaders continue to undervalue parks as key pieces of a city\u2019s ecological and social fabric. This is evidenced by how one in three in the United States lack access to a park within a 10-minute walk, leaving more than 100 million Americans deprived of easily accessed green space, creating a cascade of impacts on mental and physical health, and even economic opportunities for these cities. This is why The Trust for Public Land, in partnership with the Urban Land Institute, and the National Recreation and Parks Association, launched the 10-Minute Walk to a Park Campaign.<\/p>\n

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Source: \u00a9 Dr. Jay Batongbacal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Reclamation and Mining: A Dangerous Fight for Sustainability in the Philippines<\/strong><\/a>
\nRagene Palma, Manila<\/em><\/p>\n

Campaigning and working for sustainability is a difficult and dangerous job. While various challenges already seem burdensome in the Philippines, especially for a developing country, we continue to face environmentally-damaging threats from \u201cdone deal\u201d projects between our government and the Chinese government. As an environmental planner, I am very concerned about sustainability of our resources. Three advances are needed: more effort on environmental assessments, improved legislation, and inclusive planning.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Katrine Claassens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Imagining Future Cities in an Age of Ecological Change<\/strong><\/a>
\nUrsula Heise, Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n

Floating cities. Flying cities. Domed cities. Drowned cities. Cities that flip over once a day to expose different populations to sunlight. Cities underground, in the oceans, or in orbit. Cities on moons, asteroids, or other planets. Cities of memory, of surveillance, or of violence. Speculative fiction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has offered an enormous range of urban visions of the future, many of them dystopian, a few utopian, and quite a few somewhere in between. For good reason: Cities have taken on a new centrality for human futures.
\nThis essay is the Introduction from TNOC’s new book\u2014A Flash of Silver Green\u2014on very short fiction about future cities.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Photo: Iris Meijer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From Wet Feet to a Tiny Food Forest\u2014How These 4th Graders Transformed Their Schoolyard into a Tiny Food Forest<\/strong><\/a>
\nMarthe Derkzen, Amsterdam<\/em><\/p>\n

This story begins on a grey afternoon in January 2018. Twenty-six 9 and 10 year-olds were nervously wobbling on their chairs in their classroom on the 1st floor of a primary school in the town of Ede the Netherlands. The sound of low whispers and hushed giggles, heads curiously turning to the door. We have come to realize that a greener, safer and healthier world starts at a young age and that the schoolyard is the perfect place to provide urban nature for everyone, regardless of any children\u2019s home situation. The movement for green schoolyards is on!<\/p>\n

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Bosco Verticale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vegetating Tall Buildings<\/strong><\/a>
\nGary Grant, London<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite the success of some of these pioneering projects, the rise in popularity of lightweight green roofs in Europe and North America and the podium gardens of the high-rise cities of the Far East, the practice of establishing trees on taller buildings remains a curiosity and is still unusual. But that may be changing. Although there are some difficulties associated with growing trees and certain vegetation types on tall buildings, the success enjoyed by Hancock, Hundertwasser, and Boeri highlighted in this essay, shows that it is possible.<\/p>\n

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The May Tree, by Jean-Baptiste Pater, early 18th century \/ Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

French Landscape Painters and the Nature of Paris\u2014A review of Masterpieces of French Landscape Paintings from the <\/em>Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts\u00a0<\/em>Moscow<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
\nPatrick M. Lydon, Osaka<\/em><\/p>\n

Any exhibition that starts with an 18th century tree hugger has me on a hook. If we learn anything from an exhibition such as \u201cMasterpieces of French Landscape Paintings\u201d, it might be that French landscape painters have a thing or two to teach us about urban nature over the centuries. Despite their lush depictions of natural scenery, French landscape painters were primarily Parisian urban dwellers. Biophiles, the lot of them too.<\/p>\n

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Photo: M. Dobbie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Water Sensitive Urban Design Goes Mainstream in Victoria, Australia<\/strong><\/a>
\nMeredith Dobbie, Victoria<\/em><\/p>\n

Melbourne has long been at the forefront of sustainable stormwater management through WSUD. WSUD, in formal definition, is \u201cthe design of subdivisions, buildings and landscapes that enhances opportunities for at source conservation of water, rainfall detention and use, infiltration, and interception of pollutants in surface runoff from the block\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Neither Above Nor Below<\/a><\/strong>
\nClaire Stanford, Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n

This story won 1st prize in TNOC’s flash fiction contest., It begins: A flash of silver-green in the water. That is all Hasan sees, but it is enough. He runs after, alongside, his small legs propelling him across the planks and platforms that crisscross the city. The wood once scratched underfoot, but it has gone smooth with time and wear, just as the soles of Hasan\u2019s feet have grown thick and hearty, able to withstand all but the sharpest of splinters…<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photo: arch2o.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Biophilia Revived: How Do We Strengthen the Connection to the Natural Environment in a City Expanding in the Desert<\/strong><\/a>
\nAbdallah Tawfic, Cairo<\/em><\/p>\n

Cairo\u2019s share per capita of green spaces\u20141.7 m2\/capita\u2014is much lower than the international norms and standards. More than half of the city\u2019s population only have 0.5 m2\/capita; 70% of the population experience less than the city average of 1.7 m2\/capita. In other words, the little green and open space there is concentrated in just a few neighborhoods. New ideas such as green roofs could add a decent amount to Cairo\u2019s green spaces, given the huge amount of abundant flat concrete roofs. The idea has triggered the government\u2019s attention in the form of two national campaigns.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Neighborhoods that Change in Non-linear Ways\u2014Urban Planning for Succession<\/a><\/strong>
\nMathieu H\u00e9lie, Montr\u00e9al<\/em><\/p>\n

Behind the two fracture points of modern planning, NIMBYs and gentrification, is one fundamental question: should neighborhoods change? NIMBYs and anti-gentrification activists agree that they should not. The modern planning system was invented to enforce that agreement. If you wonder whether a struggle to add a few permissions allowing property owners to build studio rentals on their properties is worth the pain, realize what this change implies; it shifts the fundamental question of planning from should our neighborhood change to how should our neighborhood change.<\/p>\n

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Carbon Landscape Map. Source: https:\/\/carbonlandscape.org.uk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nature Rebounding in the Peri-Urban Landscapes that the Industrial Revolution Left Behind: North West England\u2019s Carbon Landscape<\/strong><\/a>
\nJanice Astbury and Joanne Tippett, Manchester<\/em><\/p>\n

Less than an hour cycling out of central Manchester along the Bridgewater Canal takes you into a green and blue landscape. It only becomes clear that this is a post-industrial area when the infrastructure of a coalfield pithead rises up behind the trees. The vision for the Carbon Landscape? \u201cIt would have to be a thriving place, a green place, a place for people, for wildlife, for recreation, for health, all of those things.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The TNOC content most read in 2019 was from 2016<\/h3>\n

(TNOC’s content tends to have a long shelf-life, and many older essays remain actively read.)<\/p>\n

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Graffiti in Bogot\u00e1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Graffiti and street art can be controversial, but can also be a medium for voices of social change, protest, or expressions of community desire. What, how, and where are examples of graffiti as a positive force in communities?<\/a>
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\nIn many cities, graffiti is associated with decay, with communities out of control, and so it is outlawed. In some cities, it is legal, within limits, and valued as a form of social expression. \u201cStreet art\u201d, graffiti\u2019s more formal cousin, which is often commissioned and sanctioned, has a firmer place in communities, but can still be an important form of \u201coutsider\u201d expression.\u00a0Interest in these art forms as social expression is broad, and the work itself takes many shapes\u2014from simple tags of identity, to scrawled expressions of protest and politics, to complex and beautiful scenes that virtually everyone would say are\u00a0\u201cart\u201d, despite their sometimes\u00a0rough locations. What are examples of graffiti as beneficial influences\u00a0in communities, as propellants of\u00a0expression and dialog? Where are they? How can they be nurtured? Can they be nurtured without undermining their essentially outsider qualities?<\/p>\n

With contributions from: Pauline Bullen, Harare; Paul Downton, Adelaide; Emilio Fantin, Bologna; Ganzeer, Los Angeles; Germ\u00e1n Eliecer G\u00f3mez, Bogot\u00e1; Sidd Joag, New York City; Patrick Lydon, San Jose & Seoul; Patrice Milillo, Los Angeles; Laura Shillington, Montreal<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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