Cities are the problem not the solution, cities have vastly over-extended the very limited powers they possess and grown into monstrous entities which need raining in.

The few U.S. city mayors spewing hot air at the White House, and that's all it is, a few mayors and not the populations of those cities which you refer to.

City bureaucrat's are only cognitive of there own self-interests not the interests of the people. Which is why we have Provincial and Federal governments. It is those two levels of true government (not municipal corporations) which provide leadership to the people of a nation.