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“Sustainable cities” attract the creative, educated people who want to live in a pollution-free, modern urban environment that suits their lifestyles.
City planners must look beyond municipal limits and analyze flows of resources – energy, food, water, and people – into and out of their cities.
Worldwide, we are seeing a heterogeneous collection of cities interacting in a way that could have far-reaching influence on how Earth’s entire life-support system evolves.
These cities are learning from one another, building on good ideas and jettisoning poorer ones.
Los Angeles took decades to implement pollution controls, but other cities, like Beijing, converted rapidly when they saw the benefits.
In the coming decades, we may see a global system of interconnected sustainable cities emerging.
Setting goals can overcome inertia, but everyone must have a stake in establishing them: countries, states, cities, organizations, companies, and people everywhere.
The 103-minute production, by the prominent journalist Chai Jing, highlights the health risks posed by the thick smog shrouding China’s most productive cities.
The demonstrations that will rock European cities the day Iraq is attacked must be counteracted in advance by unequivocal European statements to that effect.
Wartime inflation destroyed stability in the Russian empire in 1917, as farmers, worried about the declining value of their money, hoarded their output and let the cities starve.
The Hidden Wealth of CitiesSTOCKHOLM – The world is becoming increasingly urbanized, as more people are choosing to live in towns and cities than ever before.
With local governments’ finances burdened by continuously expanding spending commitments, public resources in many cities are highly constrained.
Even struggling cities own a range of commercial assets that can be used to reverse these trends.
This does not require privatization, but rather that assets could yield a reasonable return, freeing more resources than most cities currently have on hand.
In fact, through smarter asset management, cities could more than double their investments without having to raise taxes or cut spending.
Compiling an accurate balance sheet – knowledge that is, despite its importance, shockingly rare in most cities – is a crucial step toward adopting a management-focused approach.
For various reasons, cities generally do not assess the market value of their economic assets.
But, like most cities, Boston reports its assets at book value, which are tied to the historic cost.
On the contrary, its approach to historical valuation is shared by cities worldwide.
In emerging markets, especially in Asia, rapid economic expansion has brought life-threatening smog and constant gridlock to cities unable to expand their infrastructure fast enough.
China’s Green DriversBEIJING – Earlier this month, China’s government announced another bold move to ease traffic congestion and reduce carbon emissions: the authorities want 60% of all motor-vehicle use in towns and cities to be public transportation, and the government in Beijing is urging regional governments to use more zero-emission and alternative-energy vehicles.
Indeed, 16 of the world’s 20 worst cities for air pollution are in China.
The WHO estimates that while outdoor air pollution in developing-country cities may be ten times higher than in advanced-country cities, average indoor air pollution, caused by burning wood and dung, is a hundred times higher.
Fourth, today’s investments with high social returns – such as low-carbon energy, smart power grids for cities, and information-based health systems – depend on public-private partnerships, in which public investment and public policies help to spur private investment.
While the horizon of opportunities widened for educated cosmopolitans in big cities, the bonds between citizens weakened as national social contracts were dismantled.
The Mahdi Army has exchanged fire with US troops before, most notably during the fierce battles for control of the southern Iraqi cities of Najaf and Karbala in 2004.
In my country, South Africa, a record drought is forcing major cities to consider water rationing.
For example, disputes over fertile land and fresh water fueled the war in Darfur, and even the current crisis in Syria – one of the greatest sources of human displacement today – began after successive droughts pushed Syrians from rural areas into cities.
One of the first Chinese cities to implement experimental economic reforms, Foshan first built itself up as a low-cost manufacturing center, and is now working to become a knowledge-based, innovation-driven economic powerhouse.
Of 287 Chinese cities, 17 have populations of more than three million, with per capita GDP exceeding $12,000.
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