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Preventing the one-third of city dwellers who lack an urban hukou from accessing public services ultimately means that too many people who would have left rural areas remain tied to the land.
Japan and South Korea, for example, extended public services in their fast-growing urban areas without restricting mobility.
Stronger land rights for farmers will deprive city authorities of the land-conversion revenues needed to provide public services to new urban migrants.
A property tax or a local surcharge on personal income taxes would target those who most benefit from urban living.
Environmental charges and levies – such as higher registration fees for motor vehicles, pollution charges, and improved cost recovery on utilities – might also help, while simultaneously addressing urban environmental problems.
Among those who recognized the reality of involuntary unemployment were John Maynard Keynes and Arthur Lewis, who incorporated it into his model of dual economies, in which urban wages do not respond to labor-supply gluts and remain above what rural workers earn.
In emerging markets, bubbles are appearing in Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and Israel, and in major urban centers in Turkey, India, Indonesia, and Brazil.
Second, there is a widespread belief that advanced economies’ urban elites – in government, the media, and business – are either uninterested or unable to address their societies’ most serious problems: economic inequality, banking crises, aging populations and overburdened social-security systems, terrorism, porous borders, rapidly changing community identities, and much else.
Governments must expand national infrastructure so that students in densely packed urban areas and remote rural villages alike can get online.
Add to that sprawling urban slums – semi-governed, overcrowded, and poorly sanitized – and it is not surprising that these countries have struggled to contain the epidemic.
Perhaps most important, they knew that they had to focus on generating employment, particularly in urban areas and modernizing sectors, and on inclusiveness more broadly.
That, together with increased access to capital, will help to accelerate the development of the services sector, which is needed to create urban employment.
People feel ignored and looked down upon by urban coastal elites.
Much of this urban growth will occur in developing countries, especially in Africa.
In Latin America, nearly 80% of people already live in urban centers.
And yet, while each one of these ideas was revolutionary for its time, they failed because they relied heavily on the automobile and promoted urban sprawl.
New York City’s High Line, an aerial greenway built from a converted rail bed that opened in June 2009, was one of the first projects to capture this new ambition in urban planning.
From London’s (now defunct) Garden Bridge to Seoul’s Skygarden, projects are being designed to better incorporate nature into the urban fabric.
Meanwhile, in Germany, a startup called Green City Solutions is building mobile moss-covered walls to clean polluted air and help lower urban temperatures.
We are even witnessing a boom in urban agriculture, as advances in hydroponic and aeroponic farming techniques make it easier to grow vegetables in confined spaces.
While cities will never replace rural areas as the world’s main source of nutrition, a higher percentage of food can be cultivated in urban areas.
New ventures like Freight Farms in Boston and InFarm in Berlin are already harnessing these technologies to bring urban farming to more people.
As innovative solutions like these take root, urban planners are turning their attention to even bolder endeavors.
One concept that my colleagues and I have explored is custom-designed urban ecosystems and climates.
Since the 1990s, it has not invested sufficiently in human capital to meet the fast-changing economy’s shifting skill requirements; undertaken no effective education, environmental, or labor-market reforms; and launched no new urban initiatives or future-proofing infrastructure policies.
Such opportunities would allow young people to thrive in their rural communities, rather than being forced to search for work in urban areas.
More than 60 people, including two foreign reporters and a few soldiers, died in the Thai army’s suppression of the urban rebellion.
The fires were also a volcanic outburst of class hatred by the disenfranchised, rural and urban, against the Bangkok-based wealthy ruling class.
After all, the sense of disenfranchisement among voters in the country’s populous north and northeast, as well as among the urban poor, is real.
Even Europe's leftist intelligentsia now associates crime and urban squalor with immigration.
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