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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.
Foshan has more than 30 specialized market towns with sophisticated industrial clusters and local supply chains linked to international markets.
According to the World Health Organization, 13 of the world’s 20 most polluted cities and towns are in India.
Some 220,000 civilians are trapped in besieged towns in Syria, where they have been denied help and left to die.
But they tend to be ingenious at developing glamorous new areas from little towns within an hour’s commute from major cities.
Intravenous drug users – especially heroin addicts – had turned public spaces in Zurich and other Swiss cities and towns into needle parks.
But if it happens, it will not result from grassroots democratic experiments in towns and villages; rather, it will be an elite-driven transition, careful to preserve the government's control.
For three decades, marauding armies murdered, plundered, and tortured their way through villages and towns.
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.
Of course, towns and cities are no longer named for Stalin.
In Africa, for example, road coverage on Google Maps increased from 20% in 2008 to 75% last year, while the number of towns and villages for which detailed maps are available grew by more than 1,000%.
Africa’s towns and cities have been growing at some of the world’s fastest rates, but their absolute size is so small that they can absorb only a fraction of all new workers.
And yet the world remains silent in the face of the looting of Grozny and other Chechen towns and villages.
Things are even worse in Palestinian towns farther afield, such as Hebron, where Israeli settlers often behave like Wild West gunslingers, flouting the laws of their own country as they drive away Palestinians by cutting down their trees, poisoning their livestock, and subjecting them to other forms of torment, including fatal shootings, which have gone unpunished.
As I travel in small towns, many of the businesses that I see – most of them, it seems – belong to large chains, with mass-purchasing contracts, standardized training procedures, consistent quality, and, I assume, profitability.
Laying the foundations for increased trade among China, South Asia, and emerging Central Asia represents a better outlet for the Chinese construction sector than building more ghost towns at home.
Toward North Korea, on the other hand, continuity will prevail, with Abe re-emphasizing the principle that normalization of relations requires resolution of abduction cases – some dating to the 1970’s – involving Japanese citizens who were seized from coastal towns.
The Palestinian Struggle for Mastery in PalestineIsrael's reoccupation of Palestinian cities and towns culminates a predictable pattern.
For example, most towns and cities do not produce food, cars, gasoline, medicines, TVs, or films.
In towns and villages with more than a 20% non-Romanian population, street signs must be multi-lingual.
Until modern times, markets were largely local, and heavily protected against outsiders, even from neighboring towns.
With hundreds of cities competing with one another through infrastructure development, “ghost towns" will proliferate.
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.
First in Britain in the mid-eighteenth century, and then in Western Europe and North America, men and women flocked from the countryside to towns to satisfy factories’ growing demand for labor.
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.
Supermarkets in the surrounding towns have driven the smaller shops out of business.
Other towns and cities also joined in the protests, and Abdulwaheed Omar, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, called on workers around the country to strike until the government rescinded its decision to remove the subsidy.
We will soon see high-quality housing, business complexes, and zero-emissions towns appearing, one after another.
The Fiscal Crisis Down BelowPALO ALTO – Sub-national governments – states, countries, cities, provinces, towns, and special districts – play different roles from country to country, but usually deliver important public services such as police and fire protection, transportation, education, health care, and welfare.
After all, who wants to build offices, stores, and shopping centers in the empty ghost towns that litter the American West?
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