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At times, they are complimented by negotiated settlements, or at least cease-fire agreements, and peacekeepers are deployed.
Through assisted scenario planning, city planners can also make better decisions about how to extend infrastructure, such as human settlements or industrial zones.
The problem with these patents is that the mechanisms are obscure and the patent system is dysfunctional, and as a result, most of these lawsuits end in settlements.
And because these settlements are under a non-disclosure agreement, no one knows what the terms were.
Now the reason this works is because patent trolls are paid a percentage of what they're able to recover in settlements.
We've got laws that fundamentally treat creative works as property, plus massive rewards or settlements in infringement cases, plus huge legal fees to protect yourself in court, plus cognitive biases against perceived loss.
Inspire local planners to put the food sites at the heart of the town and the city plan, not relegate them to the edges of the settlements that nobody can see.
I thought I would start with a very brief history of cities. Settlements typically began with people clustered around a well, and the size of that settlement was roughly the distance you could walk with a pot of water on your head.
Until 10,000 years ago, all humans lived as hunter-gatherers, without permanent settlements or government.
They are the bits that we use to create the structures, the frames, that then become our settlements on this wide open frontier for creative experimentation.
In this border region, we find some of the wealthiest real estate, as I once found in the edges of San Diego, barely 20 minutes away from some of the poorest settlements in Latin America.
They will come anyhow, but they will live in slums, favelas and informal settlements.
Even more importantly, this common culture enables international peacebuilders to ignore the micro-level tensions that often jeopardize the macro-level settlements.
And since then, these local disputes over land and local power have fueled violence, and they have regularly jeopardized the national and international settlements.
With settlements on every continent, we can be found in the most isolated corners of Earth’s jungles, oceans, and tundras.
Communal burials first appeared in North Africa and West Asia around 10 to 15,000 years ago, around the same time as the first permanent settlements in these areas.
The fate of people living in the makeshift settlements on the outskirts of Paris is hidden and faded from view.
Such makeshift settlements are considered illegal, and therefore those living in them don't have a chance of making their voices heard.
It was only with the advent of techniques like irrigation and soil tilling about 5,000 years ago that people could rely on a steady and long-term supply of food, making permanent settlements possible.
Those settlements didn't last, but Columbus's did.
Informal settlements are incorrectly named as the problem.
So what can we learn from these sorts of settlements?
About six million people live in these kinds of temporary settlements.
One in seven live in unplanned settlements.
It’s being used to run a heavily fortified train that runs all around the country, providing supplies to settlements and facilities.
But most of these homes are in settlements.
The homes in settlements are cheap, but not sturdy.
I know you are thinking that settlements are made on illegally captured land, but capturing of land never happens in the dead of the night.
The government also agrees that the settlements in our cities have been there for over 10, 20, 30, even 40 years.
In Ahmedabad, they started a program where for ten years, 44 settlements were promised there wouldn't be any eviction.
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