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Grounding Syria’s KillersNEW YORK – As Syria has descended into all-out civil war, much of the worsening slaughter has been attributable to aerial bombardments of urban neighborhoods that President Bashar al-Assad’s opponents control, with such attacks causing especially high casualties in recent weeks in the ancient city of Aleppo.
Lurching along a rutted track that doubles as a major urban avenue, Kenyans are all too aware that a pothole is not simply a pothole; it is a window into the deeper crises that Kenya, like much of Africa, has put off repairing for far too long.
The continent’s population is projected to increase to 1.4 billion by 2030 and 1.9 billion by 2050, with 50% of people living in capital cities and urban conurbations.
Today, more than 60% of Africa’s urban population lives in slums.
The vast gap between the urban rich and the rest has grown worse over the years, with no discernible “trickle-down” effect.
Today’s fundamentalism is a modern way of being religious, more suitable to a literate, urban population than a peasantry guided by traditional religious scholars.
Roughly half of the urban labor force in Bosnia is on the payroll of international organizations and NGOs, and the other half is unemployed.
ISIS has allegedly trained 400-600 fighters for “external operations” involving urban guerrilla warfare, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), surveillance, counter-security, and forgery.
Similarly, in Ahmedabad, a city of over seven million people in Western India, authorities have launched a major initiative to cover roofs in reflective paint to lower temperatures on “heat islands,” urban areas that trap the sun’s warmth and make city living unbearable, even at night.
It is not exclusively urban, and it includes people of different cultural origins.
Many elite Sunnis – rural, urban, or, as in al-Fares’s case, tribal Bedouin – served the Syrian government, even as it brutally repressed the largely Sunni population.
Syria’s predominantly Sunni rural population endures pervasive poverty, while the wealthy, urban elite – itself largely Sunni – prospers.
Centralized municipal systems now use algorithms to monitor urban infrastructure, from traffic lights and subway use, to waste disposal and energy delivery.
The main focus will be the lagging wages of rural workers, whose per capita incomes are currently only 30% of those in urban areas – precisely the opposite of China’s aspirations for a more “harmonious society.”
Retirees can sue if their homes are seized for urban renewal, but not if the Fed’s financial suppression deprives them of a return on their savings.
In urban areas, where indigenous workers tend to lack immunity to malaria, occasional episodes of the disease result in reduced productivity.
Thus the government has no appropriate means of dealing with the recent increases in spontaneous demonstrations by laid-off urban workers or impoverished farmers, let alone dissatisfied religious sects.
By 2030, India’s urban population will reach 600 million people, twice the size of America’s.
But, in recent years, there has been a notable shift toward diversification, with some major urban centers, like Mumbai and Bangalore, experiencing the largest and fastest shifts away from specialization.
Access to better infrastructure will enable millions more entrepreneurs, especially women, to benefit from the country’s urban awakening.
Add to that greater technical and financial capacity, and it would become much easier to attract the needed private funds and build partnerships benefiting India’s urban transformation.
Are these harbingers of a robust recovery for the financial sector, or just urban myths?
Whether China can develop a formula to manage an expanding urban middle class, regional inequality, and resentment among ethnic minorities remains to be seen.
Among its objectives are a doubling of GDP and average rural and urban household incomes relative to their 2010 levels.
Just as the Great Depression arose in part from the difficulties in moving from a rural, agrarian economy to an urban, manufacturing one, so today’s problems arise partly from the need to move from manufacturing to services.
At the same time, China is undergoing rapid urbanization, with some 200 million people having left the agricultural sector in 2001-2008 to seek urban manufacturing jobs.
In East Asia, unskilled workers were put to work in urban factories, making several times what they earned in the countryside.
And, alongside obvious waste, China makes many high-return investments – in the excellent urban infrastructure of the first-tier cities, and in the automation equipment of private firms responding to rising real wages.
Thailand’s color-coated crisis pits largely urban, conservative, and royalist “yellow” shirts against the predominantly rural “red” columns of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
For much of Thailand’s long economic boom of the past two decades, wealth resided mostly in the Bangkok metropolitan area, a boon to the burgeoning urban middle class, but deeply resented by the rural majority.
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