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By strengthening farmers’ property rights, and restricting local governments’ power to expropriate land for urban growth, cities would become more compact and efficient, especially in terms of energy use.
This discourages people from seeking higher incomes in the cities, while keeping rural labor productivity and wages low.
Moreover, when migrant children are able to join their parents in the cities and get a good education, the next generation will have a better chance to escape poverty, too.
Making migration easier would not only open up opportunities in the cities; it would also accelerate agricultural transformation, as the fewer remaining agricultural workers would need to acquire new skills to raise productivity and wages.
China’s cities are forecast to spend around $5.3 trillion on infrastructure over the next 15 years; but denser, more efficient cities would save around $1.4 trillion (15% of 2013 GDP) of these costs.
China’s citizens, especially its poor, would benefit from a shift in government policy from the physical expansion of cities and infrastructure to the delivery of better, more fairly distributed public services.
And next September, California Governor Jerry Brown will host his own summit to galvanize greater action by cities, companies, and other non-state actors.
In fact, bottled water – including everything from “purified spring water” to flavored water and water enriched with vitamins, minerals, or electrolytes – is the largest growth area in the beverage industry, even in cities where tap water is safe and highly regulated.
In most Chinese cities, electronic-wallet apps on mobile phones are replacing cash as the primary method of payment.
Those who disdain environmental concerns have been ousted at the polls in large numbers, companies invest huge amounts in environmental technologies, states are suing car producers for their climate-adverse policies, and the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol have long been surpassed by some states – a lesson for German and European cities and municipalities.
And other cities like Luxembourg, Dublin, and Amsterdam have laid out their own welcome mats.
But should other cities wish to emulate London and become a global financial center?
In Europe, the Internet of Everything is emerging as the single most promising way to revive a moribund economy and tackle the continent's stubborn unemployment problem, with companies, cities, and even countries positioning themselves as leaders in innovation, growth, and the creation of jobs.
Several cities have recognized the benefits to be gained from promoting a sharing economy.
Taxi drivers and hotel owners may feel threatened, but the sharing economy has the potential to increase and redistribute earnings in cities that are already struggling with poverty and inequality.
Much of this increase is occurring in large cities where discontent was already mounting in response to the government’s palpable failure to provide basic goods and services.
Population growth, urbanization, and industrialization are exacerbating resource-related stresses, with some cities experiencing severe water shortages, and degrading the environment (as anyone who has experienced Beijing’s smog can attest).
Who would argue that after 1945 streets and squares in German cities should continue to be named after Adolf Hitler?
In less than 35 years, some 66% of the global population will live in cities.
In today’s world, people expect more from their countries and cities than growth and shopping centers.
The imperial statues are toppled, cities and streets renamed, the vestiges of foreign rule either abandoned or adapted.
Older tribal and clan loyalties in Africa were mangled by the boundaries drawn, in distant cities like Berlin, for colonially-created states whose post-independence leaders needed to invent new traditions and national identities.
Before the authorities could assure the public that the social-media posts were false, tens of thousands of northeastern Indians, feeling threatened, fled their homes and jobs in major Indian cities,Social media, by nature, rewards speed and sensationalism, not verification and caution.
Nourishing Cities with NatureBOSTON – Ever since the ancient Greek poet Theocritus wrote his pastoral idylls romanticizing rural life, people have been pondering how to build cities that are in concert with their natural surroundings.
But with rates of urbanization growing exponentially around the world , the need for greener cities has never been more urgent.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, European cities experienced unprecedented growth as huge numbers of people moved from the countryside to newly booming metropolises.
As these cities grew, they become overcrowded and polluted, which inspired a new generation of thinkers to search for solutions.
While cities will never replace rural areas as the world’s main source of nutrition, a higher percentage of food can be cultivated in urban areas.
The goal of the project was to spark conversation about sustainable design, and to illustrate the surprising ways that nature will be integrated into the cities and homes of the future.
There is a reason why few large, rich cities, if any, have undeveloped wetlands in their midst.
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