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Vietnam aims to construct eight urban rail lines in the coming years.
Try as Israel might to target militants alone, civilian bodies are being pulled from the rubble, because, like our metaphorical gunman’s home, militants and civilians inhabit the same urban space in the Gaza Strip.
Bennett is religious and the former head of the West Bank settlers’ council, but he is also young, articulate, a successful high-tech entrepreneur, and a former combat officer – a combination that attracted both radical right-wing voters and young, urban, secular support.
But we need to remind ourselves that housing investment accounts for about 30% of China’s total fixed investment, with much of the rest directed toward infrastructure – that is, long-term, durable public infrastructure investments– including subways, railways, highways, urban public facilities, and the national water system.
Most affected countries are working to increase supply by developing new sources of ground and surface water, using wastewater from nearby urban areas, harvesting rainwater, or reusing agricultural drainage.
The militant response has been suicide bomb attacks in the urban centers of the Pakistani heartland.
There are an estimated 215 million international migrants today – a number expected to grow to 400 million by 2040 – and another 740 million internal migrants who have moved from rural to urban areas within countries.
Discussion of the SDGs is now taking into consideration the need to incorporate food, water, and energy security, together with urban planning and biodiversity.
Thus, while ethnic inequities have been dramatically reduced over the past 50 years, the historical memory remains vivid to new generations of the now urban Aymaras and Quechuas people.
By 651, almost all major urban centers in Persia were under Arab control, adding momentum to the process.
While Indians have traditionally been wary of buying online, owing to their distrust of digital security, in recent years the urban middle class has become increasingly accustomed to using the Internet to purchase airline tickets, reserve hotel rooms, and order books.
More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities, and any political renaissance must counterbalance the appeal of vast virtual communities with resilient urban societies.
More generally, China has made recent progress in boosting labor productivity, encouraging technological innovation, and improving service quality in key urban areas, despite severe financial repression and inadequate access to funding by small and medium-size private enterprises.
The concept behind this vision is that the size and population density of a future Palestine will be roughly the same as in extended urban regions like the San Francisco Bay area or greater Cairo.
Thus, the West Bank should be viewed as “an integrated urban region of independent but connected cities.”Anyone who spends nine minutes watching the video presentation of the Arc will see that its potential is nothing short of breathtaking.
Most of the items on the agenda – from climate change to inequality – resonate particularly strongly for people living in urban areas, who comprise 54% of the world’s population.
But today’s urban centers are economically stronger and politically bolder.
By investing in “smart” and “resilient” urban planning, governments from Bordeaux in France to Curitiba in Brazil are strengthening their brand identities and luring talent, investment, and businesses from around the world.
The American-Canadian author and urban activist Jane Jacobs famously observed that cities are the true engines of national prosperity.
As urban areas have grown, leaders have been forced to change how they plan.
Inspired by this solidarity, and connected through international networks like Metropolis, C40 Cities, and 100 Resilient Cities, municipal leaders everywhere are forging partnerships to create united urban agendas.
This has severely degraded the quality of education at second- and third-tier universities concentrated in China’s inner provinces, thus widening the development gap between China’s urban coast and rural hinterland.
This was reflected not only in the record number of people who participated, but also in the diversity of the marchers – urban activists, indigenous groups, adherents of different faiths and political viewpoints, and, most conspicuously, old and young.
They began to demand improvement in roads, sanitation, electricity, public security, and other necessities of rural and urban development – in short, they demanded better governance.
And now, in a more mobile and urban world, one might ask: can cooperatives maintain their essential character, based on inclusion and knowledge sharing within a community?
For example, we could determine if protecting the oceans will stifle economic growth and urban development in a particular country or region.
To some, green growth evokes a countryside covered with windmills and urban roofs lined with solar panels.
Educational loans should be booming in urban and rural China, but banks do not know to whom to lend, so they are not.
Hungary's political right has suffered mainly from differences between conservative and populist forces on the one hand, and traditional, mainly urban, liberals on the other.
Yet the urban youth unemployment rate stands at 23.3%.
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