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In many ways, Asia’s cities hold Earth’s future in their hands.
As more Africans move to cities, they acquire a taste for rice, which is easy to store and can be cooked quickly.
Students overwhelmingly come from affluent backgrounds, which often means they are from the biggest cities.
Some cities are hesitant to provide services, because they fear it will attract new migrants.
A better approach is to steer migrants from vulnerable rural areas to nearby medium-size cities equipped with the necessary services to absorb them; this, in turn, will prevent megacities from growing unsustainably.
But the impact of large cities runs deeper than economic or even cultural power; cities can fundamentally change people’s lives – and even the people themselves.
That is why people move to the big city; indeed, it is why cities thrive.
How can cities as ostensibly different as New York, with its towering profile, and Paris, characterized by wide boulevards, function so similarly?
The results are striking: in large cities, people not only walk faster (a tendency recorded since the 1960s), but they also make – and change – friends faster.
But another tendency is also consistent across cities of all sizes: people tend to build “villages” around themselves.
Vast tracts of prime real estate in cities, sold to officers for a pittance, have turned into mega housing developments.
Scenes of wild-eyed mullahs demonstrating in the streets of Pakistani cities are a boon to his position.
It also calls for universal access to clean water and sanitation (SDG6) and the creation of healthy and sustainable cities (SDG11).
The good news is that both the private and public sectors – motivated by soaring demand for food, especially in Africa’s rapidly growing cities, and rising global food prices – seem ready to propel this shift.
While future sea level is hard to predict, most experts would agree that unabated global warming could lead in the coming centuries to a rise measured in meters, threatening the very existence of many coastal cities and entire island nations.
This is happening in many large Russian cities, such as Volgograd and Yekaterinburg.
Inhabitants in Russia's big cities argue that it was many times more peaceful before.
Now, these deported criminals can go to the previously closed big cities and kill rich people instead of poor Siberians.
This should be seen as a betrayal of many Trump voters in the rural areas of relatively poor states and the Rust Belt cities of the Midwest, where people most need the federal government’s help to remain solvent and healthy.
Former Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram has said that his dream is to see 85% of Indians living in cities and only 15%, as opposed to the current 60%, engaged in agriculture, because to be an agrarian society in the modern era is to be poor and powerless.
Of course, no one is under the illusion that India or any other country will abandon its cities for a life as simple as the one Gandhi strove to live; but that doesn’t mean that India can’t look to Gandhi’s core values for inspiration.
His appointees effectively control most ministries and Iran’s major cities.
Thus, the government loses its chance to modernize Russian cities, roads, hospitals, and universities.
Similarly, in the United States, cities like Boston, Baltimore, and Philadelphia became centers for producing textiles, garments, and shoes.
The latter have proven themselves to be tremendously reliable and capable fighters, as the battles to liberate the cities of Kobani and Sinjar from ISIS control have shown.
Organizations – including the BBC, the Dutch public service broadcaster NOS, and others across Europe – have plans in place for journalists responding to incidents in their home cities or those directly targeting their newsrooms.
In honor of this historic event, statues of two leaders in the struggle for women’s suffrage, Millicent Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst, are to be erected in British cities.
Most major cities sit on coasts, straddle rivers, or lie on vulnerable deltas, putting them on the front line of rising sea levels and flooding in the coming decades.
But, with cities responsible for 70% of global greenhouse-gas emissions, mitigation is better.
But, by May last year, some 30 US states had developed their own climate action plans, and more than 900 US cities have signed up to the US climate-protection agreement.
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