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As it stands, urban retirees derive about half of their income, on average, from family support.
The Tibetans cannot complain that they have been left behind in China’s transformation from a Third World wreck to a marvel of supercharged urban development.
But this straightforward statistical estimate does not account for the serious problems that China must address in the coming years, such as rising inequality between rural and urban areas and between coastal and inland regions.
It remains to be seen whether China can develop a formula to manage an expanding urban middle class, regional inequality, and, in many places, restive ethnic minorities.
Ministries of agriculture, industry, tourism, and urban development, are some examples.
One of the biggest advantages of this approach is its adaptability: an RAS can be located almost anywhere, from urban lots to retired hog barns.
Already, Asia’s urban areas experience twice as many hot days as its rural areas do – and could experience ten times as many by 2100.
Indeed, many consequences of a hotter planet – such as more extreme weather events, sea-level rise, environmental migration, and mounting social tensions – intersect in urban areas.
By 2050, Asia’s urban population could nearly double, to three billion people.
In order to improve city planning and health-care services, we need a simple and accurate way to assess current and future heat-tolerance levels among urban populations.
We also need strategies to decrease urban heat stress, including a shift toward polycentric urban configurations, with economies and societies built around multiple regional hubs, rather than concentrated around a single city, and natural assets maintained through eco-corridors and connected green spaces.
As it stands, the risks of sea-level rise for Asia’s coastal urban centers are still not sufficiently understood, nor have they been adequately integrated into planning processes.
Destination countries could also establish urban work and training centers for incoming migrants, many of whom will lack the skills required to land city jobs; and they should recognize the qualifications of those who do have expertise, and help them to find work.
A growing body of evidence suggests that similar functions govern even more aspects of urban life than the research by West’s team indicated.
HIV – indeed, any sexually transmitted disease – provides a particularly vivid example of the way that social networks shape urban life, as it spreads through linkages of sexual partners.
What computational social science offers is the prospect of quantifying such observations and gaining insights that could shape the design of urban environments in the future.
Instead, Koizumi appealed to an electoral majority comprising urban and suburban swing voters.
Trump used populist language in his campaign, stoking up popular resentment against the educated urban elites, including capitalists on Wall Street.
First, farming is geographically concentrated and farmers vote on agricultural policy above everything else, greatly enhancing the power of their votes – something that few, if any, urban consumers do.
We know this because we have seen it happen repeatedly: a poor, agrarian economy transforms itself into a middle- or even high-income urban economy in one or two generations.
The mosquito nets ubiquitous in my childhood disappeared from urban houses by the time I was at university in the late 1950s.
“Sustainable cities” attract the creative, educated people who want to live in a pollution-free, modern urban environment that suits their lifestyles.
What we need are universal sustainable development goals on issues such as energy, food security, sanitation, urban planning, and poverty eradication, while reducing inequality within the planet’s limits.
Unfortunately, most of the focus to date has been on women in the West, or those living in urban areas.
The first is the widening of Britain’s income distribution between 1750 and 1850, as the gains from the British Industrial Revolution went to the urban and rural middle class, but not to the urban and rural poor.
But the same economic stimuli that underpin higher food output also lead to supply problems, a decline in living standards, and massive social strains, especially in urban centers.
The trouble is, most urban areas are unprepared to manage the influx.
Unlocking the public value of poorly utilized real estate, for example, or monetizing transportation and utility assets, could and should become core urban strategies.
Hamburg’s HafenCity GmbH, and parts of Copenhagen that were revitalized by the City & Port Development Company, are just two examples of urban areas that have used this type of development mechanism.
As urban populations grow, city planners must become more adept at budgeting for the long term.
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