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Myanmar’s GDP is now only around 0.2% of Asia’s, equivalent to the size of cities such as Bristol, Delhi, or Seville.
Roughly $300 billion in infrastructure investment in these areas is required across the economy, half of which would need to be in large cities, which will expand if Myanmar diversifies out of agriculture.
Today, only an estimated 13% of Myanmar’s population lives in large cities, but that could rise to 25% by 2030 – an addition of ten million people.
Moreover, education provides the skills people need to thrive in the new sustainable economy, working in areas such as renewable energy, smart agriculture, forest rehabilitation, the design of resource-efficient cities, and sound management of healthy ecosystems.
Rapid change in China already has resulted in a battle of ideas, pitting the coasts and cities against the countryside and inland provinces, and the rich against the poor.
This does not mean that local politics is easy; witness today’s fraught relations between police and racial minorities in US cities.
But, as Bruce Katz and Luise Noring have documented, in many cities in America and around the world, elected officials, civic organizations, and private business often unite beyond party lines to design and find funding for innovative projects in public transport, housing, or economic development.
Bubbles can persist for decades (think of real-estate prices in fashionable cities) or just minutes (as in hard-to-justify intraday fluctuations).
It is telling that so many Africans are willing to risk drowning in the Mediterranean Sea, living in appalling detention centers in North Africa, or sleeping in public parks in European cities, rather than remaining in Africa.
The same process of expert advice and problem solving is urgently needed on issues such as low-carbon energy, sustainable agriculture, resilient cities, and universal health coverage, all of which are likely to feature in the SDGs.
Russian airstrikes have been concentrated on targets around the cities of Idlib, Homs, and Hama – areas where, according to independent observers, jihad watchers, and other groups that scrutinize the videos placed online by the Russian authorities themselves, the Islamic State is not established.
A pattern of sharp price increases, which peaked around 1990, was followed by declines in cities from Boston and Los Angeles to London, Sydney, and Tokyo, contributing to severe regional recessions.
This is likely to be the case for "glamour cities" in which international celebrities, entertainment industries, world-class universities, or high technology industries are located.
Home prices in these cities are high as well as volatile.
In "glamour cities," newspaper articles feature stories of homes that sold well above asking price, and 45% of respondents in the 2003 survey reported selling at above asking prices in San Francisco.
This may amplify any price declines, especially in "glamour cities" and those with weakening economies.
In the southern United States, cities and towns pummeled by Hurricane Florence in September were still drying out when Hurricane Michael brought more flooding in October.
At the same time, an estimated two billion people will move to cities in the next quarter-century.
Of course, towns and cities are no longer named for Stalin.
An Iraqi commander recently summed up the challenge: “We don’t have enough intelligence information; we don’t have good air coverage; we are battling very well-trained groups that have good experience in street fights, that are moving fast between cities and villages.”
What is true of book buying is also true for many other systems that are being digitized, such as our cities and societies.
But the greatest leverage will undoubtedly come from policies that foster ongoing and rapid migration from the countryside to the cities.
As of 1961, some 200 nuclear bombs had been exploded, most of them in the atmosphere, but two on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
And street protests – and the police and military response to them – have continued to rock the capital and other important cities.
In particular, in addition to individual life-saving efforts, strategies should be implemented to reduce the risk of infection in port cities and other centers of economic activity.
Moreover, the housing price index for 70 major Chinese cities has dropped from 9.6% in January to -2.6% last month.
But taking advantage of those technologies will require effective policies, including smart infrastructure investments and measures to make cities more competitive, particularly in modern industries.
Making its cities more competitive will require India to decide whether to emphasize specialization (with an industry concentrated in a particular city) or diversification (with each city home to a range of industries, roughly in line with the national average).
In 1991, around the time India’s economic liberalization began, the country’s cities tended toward specialization.
This bodes well for employment, because more diversified cities and districts tend to experience greater job growth.
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