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That is why cities, regions, and countries can absorb technology only gradually, generating growth through some recombination of the knowhow that is already in place, maybe with the addition of some component – a bassist to complete a string quartet.
With one billion people - one sixth of all humanity -- stretched across a diverse sub-continent that ranges from the Himalayas to desert to fertile river valleys to great coastal cities, everything about India lies beyond generalization.
Workers are demanding higher compensation to match the fast-rising cost of living in China’s cities, as manifested in an ongoing and high-profile labor strike at a Honda plant based in Guangdong.
Moreover, most of the existing housing tends to be in rural areas, whereas most of the jobs are in the cities.
Even before his fall, the opposition controlled most big Serbian cities, and in 2000 he lost the election that he called to shore up his authority.
Today, the number of “desplazados” from Colombia’s guerrilla wars (1.5 million refugees at the latest count) is greater than the population of all but three of our largest cities and forms the third largest group of refugees in the world.
But while passivity may have ensured social peace in the short term, it enabled values other than those of the republic to take root in wide swaths of French cities.
Such initiatives foster the flow of resources into agriculture – both for the agribusinesses needed to feed Africa’s growing cities, and for smallholders who need better seeds, fertilizer, and market roads.
The French have recently conducted a series of two-day meetings in several provincial cities.
A country-wide strike called by opposition parties on September 20 brought many cities and towns to a halt.
More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities, and any political renaissance must counterbalance the appeal of vast virtual communities with resilient urban societies.
Terrorist attacks have struck Moscow, Beslan, Ankara, Istanbul, Paris, Nice, Munich, Brussels, London, Boston, New York, Washington, and other cities – and those responsible for carrying them out are determined to strike again.
Thus, the West Bank should be viewed as “an integrated urban region of independent but connected cities.”Anyone who spends nine minutes watching the video presentation of the Arc will see that its potential is nothing short of breathtaking.
For example, 43% of people still lack access to basic sanitation facilities, and many of Asia’s cities, burdened by burgeoning populations, suffer from poor sanitation, deteriorating environmental conditions, and inadequate housing and infrastructure.
Consider the recent “lights out” campaign that supposedly should energize the world about the problems of climate change by urging citizens in 27 big cities to turn out their lights for an hour.
Measuring the avoided climate impact for the indefinite future, the entire combined efforts of the Queen, many companies, and the city halls of Copenhagen and other cities yielded $20 worth of good.
Despite its own high rates of unemployment, hundreds of thousands of people from the Caucasus have jobs in Russian cities.
This is a mistake; if the world’s biggest problems are to be solved, cities must become part of the conversation.
Historically, cities have played a marginal role in global debates.
In the United States, for example, early cities were rife with corruption and factionalism; local politics was messy enough.
Twenty-first-century cities’ determination to act in their own interests became clear in late 2017, when more than 50 US mayors pledged to meet the commitments of the 2015 Paris climate agreement – directly challenging President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the deal.
This week, leaders from Montreal and 10,000 other cities around the world will deliver a similar message to the G7.
Small and mid-sized cities are also raising their international profiles.
The American-Canadian author and urban activist Jane Jacobs famously observed that cities are the true engines of national prosperity.
To be sure, today’s cities face many challenges.
But, as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel noted last month, this has been positive for many cities, allowing them to become testing grounds for the future of mobility, work, housing, energy, education, and health.
Of course, not all cities have the same resources, influence, or needs as Chicago or Singapore.
It is only a matter of time until North Korea has nuclear-armed missiles that can reach South Korea and its capital of Seoul, Japan, and even large cities on the West Coast of North America.
Likewise, a powerful urbanization dynamic continues to deliver solid support for China’s high-investment economy, while enabling relatively poor rural workers to raise their incomes by finding higher-paying jobs in the cities.
Finding affordable housing has become an increasingly serious problem for those relocating to cities for the first time.
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