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We can design cities that prevent fires from spreading from building to building.
It is certainly a problem when it burns freely through cities.
The reform plan was supposed to improve the situation by allowing migrants in towns and small cities to acquire local residency permits more freely, while easing the requirements in medium-sized cities.
But efforts to reform the system have been met with strong resistance, especially from local governments and residents, who fear the strain that unregulated migration to their cities will have on resources, employment, and services.
Unlike floating ice, which does nothing to the sea level when it melts, there is enough of this ice sheet above the surface that it could raise the sea level by something like 20 feet if it glaciated into the ocean, inundating coastal cities everywhere.
Many people can drive a cab, including many who are unemployed, but not so many can get permission to do so in many major cities in Europe and the US.
As policymakers and political leaders look for ways to make economic growth more inclusive, cities will play a central role in any solution.
A survey of OECD countries shows that half the total population lives in cities of more than 500,000 inhabitants, and that cities have accounted for 60% of total growth of employment and GDP since 2001.
However, this growth has not been inclusive: income inequality in cities is higher than the national average in all OECD countries surveyed, except Canada.
As the site of both economic opportunity and disparity, cities are where we must look to tackle inequality.
First, cities should make education systems more inclusive by investing in vocational schools where people of all ages and backgrounds can learn marketable skills.
Second, cities should ensure that employment and entrepreneurship opportunities are available to all people, including women, young adults, immigrants, and disadvantaged populations.
Third, cities must ensure high-quality, affordable housing for all in safe, healthy neighborhoods.
Finally, cities should ensure that public infrastructure and services – including public transportation, water, energy, waste management, and broadband – are easily accessible for all.
UBS, the Swiss banking group, prices a standard basket of 111 goods and services in various cities around the world.
For European cities, the results are listed in the table below, which uses Germany as the benchmark.
Yet wages are vastly different and hence we expect lower retail prices in poorer cities and countries than in richer ones.
According to the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), formed in Baghdad in 2003, women are harassed if they appear in the streets of most Iraqi cities and towns, educational institutions, or work places.
Now there are even “no woman zones” in some southern cities controlled by Islamist parties and tribal leaders.
First, the Iraqi government must immediately establish “Protection of Women” security patrols in Iraq’s southern cities.
China’s authoritarian political system has demonstrated an impressive ability to meet specific targets, from the construction of high-speed railways to the creation of entire new cities.
Anti-Trump demonstrations in big cities will no doubt annoy the self-loving new president, and the moral glow of joining the resistance will warm the protesters.
But the extreme heat will return, with cities facing particularly brutal conditions.
The first detailed assessment of climate risk for Asia, carried out by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), makes clear that Asia’s cities stand at the frontline of the fight against climate change.
This is particularly true in Asia, where cities house more than half of the population and produce almost 80% of economic output.
Without new climate initiatives, the region’s cities could contribute more than half of the increase in global greenhouse-gas emissions over the next 20 years.
Climate-driven migration flows will exacerbate the challenges Asian cities face.
Even if jobs are available, the environmental pressure created by ever-more populated cities will pose a grave threat.
Asia is home to 13 of the 20 global cities expected to experience the sharpest increases in annual economic loss due to floods between now and 2050.
Flood risks could complicate energy-infrastructure development in coastal cities in countries like Bangladesh and India.
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