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It does not help when some of those trapped in the poor ghettos surrounding major cities – however small a minority – become tempted by violence and fall prey to terrorist recruiters.
For example, most towns and cities do not produce food, cars, gasoline, medicines, TVs, or films.
So what should countries, provinces, and cities do?
In cities, the poor must contend with the effects of “heat islands” – developed areas that trap the sun’s warmth and make temperatures significantly hotter than in rural regions.
Although jobs may be more plentiful in cities, India’s largest metropolitan areas are already bursting; adding millions of climate refugees to underdeveloped slums and shantytowns would be catastrophic.
With hundreds of cities competing with one another through infrastructure development, “ghost towns" will proliferate.
Property sales have fallen, particularly outside the largest cities, and slower construction growth has left heavy industry facing severe overcapacity.
In Jordan, water shortages occur with devastating frequency, particularly in larger cities like Amman.
If it appears frivolous to write about public space in cities like Bogota, Delhi, and Lima, where poverty and squalor run rampant, consider that the government's subsidy of grass and concrete for pedestrians is a measure of its respect for human dignity and the democratic values.
As automobiles drove pedestrians off to the side of streets, cities in the Third World should have developed a parallel network of exclusively pedestrian walkways.
This is especially true in developing countries, where the population of cities will increase by more than two billion inhabitants over the next 30 years.
Generally, cities in developing countries cannot afford architectural jewels such as Notre Dame; but they can have formidable pedestrian avenues shaded by enormous tropical trees.
Environmental and social sustainability worldwide depends to a large degree on what happens in developing countries' cities over the next few decades.
Old industrial England, in cities like Sunderland and Manchester, voted against better-off London.
Indeed, the tasks that these countries are undertaking – investing in infrastructure (roads, electricity, ports, and much else), building cities that will one day be home to billions, and moving toward a green economy – are truly enormous.
They could curtail federal support for public services in sanctuary cities and states with immigrant-friendly policies.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC), an unregulated global monopoly, conducts a biannual auction whereby the world’s cities compete against one another to prove their suitability.
Among other things, cities will offer lavish sporting venues, ostentatious ceremonial spaces, newly built transportation networks, luxurious accommodations for athletes, and media and broadcasting centers.
The outcome of this process is predictable: winning cities usually overbid.
As it happens, everyday tourists avoid Olympic host cities during the Games, owing to crowds, transportation delays, inflated prices, and possible security threats.
One area where some host cities – but not all – can actually realize long-term gains is in infrastructure spending.
Less developed cities with inadequate infrastructure must spend more to meet the IOC’s transportation, communications, and hospitality requirements; more developed cities have the infrastructure, but not necessarily the land, and risk disrupting thriving industries to bring the Games to fruition.
It proved to be the tipping point, triggering waves of protests by lawyers and other groups in Pakistan’s main cities.
In Libya, Islamist militias control entire cities and regions, rendering it impossible for the central government to assert its authority.
But labor is no longer cheap, road construction to connect major cities has given way to building large shopping malls in small towns, and land sales based on rezoning are reaching both economic limits and the limits of villagers’ tolerance.
That makes those cities look very glamorous and dynamic, but it also generates huge difficulties as impossibly high housing prices mean overcrowding, longer and difficult commutes, and a decline in the quality of life for the local population.
In the 12 months following the book’s publication, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy were assassinated, inner cities across the United States exploded in riots and French student protesters began the rebellion that toppled President Charles de Gaulle a year later.
But it can do so while cutting greenhouse-gas emissions and dramatically cutting the terrible air pollution that blights its major cities.
The latter approach is reflected in rabble-rousing speeches by BJP leaders and a concerted campaign to give Muslim-sounding towns and cities new, supposedly more authentic Hindu names.
Al Gore, for example, famously claimed that a whopping six meters (20 feet) of sea-level rise would flood major cities around the world.
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