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It's a great honor to be here.

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It's a great honor to be here talking about cities,

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talking about the future of cities.

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It's great to be here as a mayor.

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I really do believe that mayors have the political position

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to really change people's lives.

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That's the place to be.

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And it's great to be here as the mayor of Rio.

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Rio's a beautiful city,

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a vibrant place, special place.

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Actually, you're looking at a guy

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who has the best job in the world.

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And I really wanted to share with you

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a very special moment of my life

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and the history of the city of Rio.

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(Video) Announcer: And now, ladies and gentlemen,

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the envelope containing the result.

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Jacques Rogge: I have the honor to announce

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that the games of the 31st Olympiad

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are awarded to the city of Rio de Janeiro.

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(Cheering)

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EP: Okay, that's very touching, very emotional,

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but it was not easy to get there.

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Actually it was a very hard challenge.

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We had to beat the European monarchy.

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This is Juan Carlos, king of Spain.

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We had to beat the powerful Japanese with all of their technology.

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We had to beat the most powerful man in the world

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defending his own city.

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So it was not easy at all.

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And actually this last guy here said a phrase a few years ago

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that I think fits perfectly to the situation

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of Rio winning the Olympic bid.

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We really showed that, yes, we can.

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And really, this is the reason I came here tonight.

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I came here tonight to tell you

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that things can be done,

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that you don't have always to be rich or powerful

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to get things on the way,

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that cities are a great challenge.

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It's a difficult task to deal with cities.

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But with some original ways

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of getting things done,

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with some basic commandments,

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you can really get cities

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to be a great, great place to live.

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I want you all to imagine Rio.

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You probably think about a city full of energy,

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a vibrant city full of green.

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And nobody showed that better

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than Carlos Saldanha in last year's "Rio."

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(Video) Bird: This is incredible.

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EP: Okay, some parts of Rio are pretty much like that,

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but it's not like that everywhere.

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We're like every big city in the world.

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pollution, cars, concrete, lots of concrete.

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they are some pictures from Madureira.

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It's like the heart of the suburb in Rio.

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that we're doing in Madureira, in this region,

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to see what we should think as our first commandment.

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So every time you see a concrete jungle like that,

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what you've got to do is find open spaces.

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and make it that people can get inside

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and use those spaces.

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by June this year.

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where you can put nature.

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is, a city of the future

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you think about high-capacity transportation.

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is something that was already presented in TED

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who created that, a city in Brazil, Jaime Lerner.

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The contractors, they don't like that.

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This is a map of Rio.

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it's our high-capacity transportation network.

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we only carry 18 percent of our population

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we're going to move to 63 percent of the population

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has to deal with mobility and integration

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is, favelas are not always a problem.

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if you put public policy inside the favelas.

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Let me just show a map of Rio again.

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mainly education and health -- with high quality.

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to have all its favelas completely urbanized.

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and then we built this, what we call, a knowledge square.

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can go inside and have access to all technology.

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which is this great laugh

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I really wouldn't be here tonight.

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Between November and May, Rio's completely packed.

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from here, from Long Beach,

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so I got here last night and I know everything.

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This is Osorio,

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he's our secretary of urban affairs.

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So Osorio, good to be there with you.

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I've already told the people

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that we have tropical rain this time of year.

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So how's the weather in Rio now?

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Osorio: The weather is fine. We have fair weather today.

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Let me get you our weather satellite radar.

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Absolutely no problem in the city in terms of weather,

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today and in the next few days.

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EP: Okay, how's the traffic?

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We, at this time of year, get lots of traffic jams.

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People get mad at the mayor. So how's the traffic tonight?

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Osario: Well traffic tonight is fine.

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Let me get you one of our 8,000 buses.

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A live transmission in downtown Rio for you, Mr. Mayor.

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You see, the streets are clear.

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Nothing of concern in terms of traffic.

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Let me get you the fleet of our waste collection trucks.

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This is live transmission.

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We have GPS's in all of our trucks.

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It was great to have you here.

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I don't need to be there anymore to know and to administrate the city.

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But everything that I said here tonight, or the commandments,

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for us to govern cities --

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invest in infrastructure, invest in the green,

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open parks, open spaces,

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integrate socially, use technology.

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But at the end of the day, when we talk about cities,

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we talk about a gathering of people.

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And we cannot see that as a problem.

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That is fantastic.

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If there's 3.5 billion now,

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it's going to be six billion then it's going to be 10 billion.

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That is great, that means we're going to have

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10 billion minds working together,

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10 billion talents together.

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So a city of the future,

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I really do believe

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that it's a city that cares about its citizens,

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integrates socially its citizens.

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A city of the future is a city that can never let anyone out

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of this great party, which are cities.

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Thank you very much.

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