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From the standpoint of both climate change and growth, the rise of cities represents a challenge and an opportunity.
But how will the world’s cities pay for new and greener infrastructure?
If cities are to reduce their carbon footprint, they will need massive investments in their infrastructure.
And new infrastructure will be needed to maintain cities’ role as the drivers of economic growth: the world’s 600 major cities already generate more than half of global GDP, and urban areas will contribute disproportionately to future wealth creation.
In all, around $2 trillion a year will be needed for the next 20 years to keep the world’s cities liveable and to reduce their carbon emissions.
Only a few cities are rich enough to upgrade their infrastructure on their own.
Most cities – especially in developed countries – cannot rely on more transfers from national governments.
Faced with a growing infrastructure-investment gap, cities will need more private investment.
Very large cities can establish their own institutions to match infrastructure projects and investors, as Chicago has already done through its Infrastructure Trust.
We, the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, are but two voices among representatives from more than 6,600 cities in 160 countries and regions worldwide who support this historic goal.
Military planners who consider the use of nuclear weapons have probably given scant thought to those living in the cities on their target lists.
For too long, the residents of cities have been used as pawns on a global nuclear chessboard, with little concern for the full implications of playing the game.
But, as the public is educated about the specific threats that nuclear weapons continue to pose to the cities in which they live, that stance will be increasingly difficult to maintain.
The tragic tale of our two cities should never become the tale of your city.
Thousands of cities and 200 countries around the world will need to rally all stakeholders – government, communities, experts, business, and non-governmental organizations – to play their roles, and open online education will be key to disseminating the information they need.
They generate the terrible local pollution that blights cities in China and India.
While education is improving in urban areas, children in the countryside are facing a decline in educational quality, because better teachers find their way to the cities.
Moreover, given the income disparities between cities and rural areas, their education is more expensive than it is for urban families.
Except in large cities, people can now freely choose their hukou after three years of residency.
Farmers till arid pastureland, and policymakers fret over empty reservoirs, dry rivers, and thirsty cities.
So subterranean aquifers are increasingly being exploited for agriculture, power generation, and daily use in fast-growing cities (urban Asia is growing at a rate of 120,000 people per day).
Over-pumping of groundwater is already leading to soil subsidence, causing some Asian cities to sink.
West Coast cities are among the hardest hit.
From Seattle to the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, tech workers earning six-figure salaries are dodging tent cities to get to work, and state and city governments are under increasing pressure to respond.
Other revenue-raising measures are on local ballots in several California cities in the November election.
For example, in Seattle, with the third-largest homeless population among US cities, a per-employee tax on large companies was soon repealed under intense business pressure.
As Foshan’s experience demonstrates, cities can play a pivotal role in correcting these imbalances and driving China’s economic transition.
In terms of physical infrastructure, China’s most dynamic cities – such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Foshan – already resemble Western metropolises like Paris and Chicago.
The convergence of consumer lifestyles and preferences driven by globalization has enabled the world’s major cities to specialize production for global markets.
In other words, markets are global networks, which depend on cities to serve as hubs; cities, in turn, require state coordination of supply chains to deliver market-enabling public goods effectively.
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