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Booming economy is not the only characteristic of a truly modern city, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin told RT, adding that people’s needs, quality of life and social equality take a central role in modern urban development.Any future urban development strategy should be “human-centered,” the mayor said, speaking to RT at this year’s Moscow Urban Forum – an event attended by hundreds of city officials, heads of property development companies, urban specialists, architects, and scientists from more than 70 countries.“The life of the big modern cities is based on human capital and people prefer to move to the places where they feel comfortable,” Sobyanin explained. “This forum is a broad discussion about the quality of life, about the ways of making city life human-centered, focused on its citizens.”Also on rt.comMoscow could enter Europe’s top 10 most attractive tourism destinations by 2025The mayor believes that such an approach is also conducive to the economic development as, after all…