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The first source of local water supply that we need to develop to solve our urban water problem will flow with the rainwater that falls in our cities.
One of the great tragedies of urban development is that as our cities grew, we started covering all the surfaces with concrete and asphalt.
And so the challenge that we face in urban water harvesting is to capture the water, clean the water and get it underground.
The second tap that we need to open up to solve our urban water problem will flow with the wastewater that comes out of our sewage treatment plants.
The fourth and final water tap that we need to open up to solve our urban water problem will flow with desalinated seawater.
Traditionally, urban planners and architects build physical models of cities and buildings to better understand them.
So with Tony Tang at the Media Lab, we created an interface built on inFORM to allow urban planners to design and view entire cities.
I found my new passion and the urban environment was my playground.
For example, an image of a smile signals joy to modern urban dwellers and aboriginal tribesmen alike.
And so uberPOOL is a very great solution for urban carpooling.
Alternatively, Amira can head to an urban area in a neighboring country, like Amman or Beirut.
Refugees in such urban areas don't usually have the right to work.
And so when Amira and her family have used up their basic savings, they're left with very little and likely to face urban destitution.
Around the world, we present refugees with an almost impossible choice between three options: encampment, urban destitution and dangerous journeys.
But it just so happened, two days later, I had to travel up the road to Harlem, where I found myself sitting in an urban farm that had once been a vacant lot, listening to a man named Tony tell me of the kids that showed up there every day.
While it is generally believed that menstrual unawareness and misconception is a rural phenomenon, during my research, I found that it is as much an urban phenomenon as well.
And it exists with the educated urban class, also.
And the highest rates of depression were urban women in North America.
When high blood pressure screening expanded from clinics and hospitals to communities in the 1960s and '70s, black physicians like Dr. Eli Saunders in Baltimore and Dr. Keith Ferdinand in New Orleans were at the forefront of bringing health promotion to community hubs in urban black neighborhoods.
But over the last century, gradually this delicate balance of these places has been interfered with; first, by the urban planners of the colonial period, when the French went enthusiastically about, transforming what they saw as the un-modern Syrian cities.
While many reasons had led to the Syrian war, we shouldn't underestimate the way in which, by contributing to the loss of identity and self-respect, urban zoning and misguided, inhumane architecture have nurtured sectarian divisions and hatred.
The idea was to create an urban fabric inspired by a tree, capable of growing and spreading organically, echoing the traditional bridge hanging over the old alleys, and incorporating apartments, private courtyards, shops, workshops, places for parking and playing and leisure, trees and shaded areas.
And whether in the shape of informal concrete slums or broken social housing or trampled old towns or forests of skyscrapers, the contemporary urban archetypes that have emerged all across the Middle East have been one cause of the alienation and fragmentation of our communities.
A forest can be an integral part of our urban existence.
So this nature, this kind of wild, untended part of our urban, peri-urban, suburban agricultural existence that flies under the radar, it's arguably more wild than a national park, because national parks are very carefully managed in the 21st century.
And that doesn't even count your back garden, the urban creek, the empty lot.
Even those jobs we created were low-productivity jobs, so we moved people from low-productivity agriculture to low-productivity commerce and working in the informal sector in the urban areas.
First, our model of transportation and urbanization is broken, so this is the best moment to redefine our urban and mobility future.
It's 1.5 acres of persimmon trees, this prolific blackberry bush that snakes around a community garden, all smack-dab, by the way, in the middle of urban Oakland.
Like many urban schools with high poverty rates, we face numerous challenges, like finding teachers who can empathize with the complexities of a disadvantaged community, lack of funding for technology, low parental involvement and neighborhood gangs that recruit children as early as fourth grade.
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