What makes a city a better place to live? Beijing and New York may be thousands of miles apart, but both face a common challenge: How to build cities that are cleaner, safer, and more livable for millions of residents. With Beijing's 2016-35 Master Plan and New York City's OneNYC 2050 strategy outlining their visions for the years ahead, Urban October, a month dedicated by UN-Habitat to reflecting on the future of our cities, offers a timely opportunity to explore how the two cities approach urban planning and governance. What challenges do they share? Where do their approaches differ? And what can each city learn from the other?

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