Half the World in Cities NEXT year
06-27-2007, 11:15 AM
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Half the World in Cities NEXT year
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Some 3.3 billion people — more than half of humanity — will be living in cities by next year, according to a U.N. report released Wednesday. By 2030, cities will be home to close to 5 billion.
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Without proper planning, cities across the globe face the threat of overwhelming poverty, limited opportunities for youth, and religious extremism, U.N. Population Fund Executive Director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid told The Associated Press
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Her agency's "State of the World Population 2007" report outlines the rate and scale of urban growth and calls for the policy initiatives to manage it. The agency found current policy initiatives often aim to keep the poor out of cities by limiting migration and cutting lower-income housing. "Cities see poor people as a burden," Obaid said. "They should be seen as an asset."
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"Investing in them in terms of shelter, education and so on would mean you have a good economic force that can work and create even further economic growth coming from cities,"
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"Extremism is often a reaction to rapid and sudden change or to a feeling of exclusion and injustice, and the cities can be a basis for that if they are not well managed," Obaid said. "It's very much an urban phenomenon."
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"My passion is to make sure youth are included in everything we do," Obaid said. "They are the ones always on the move, trying to find different ways of life and better life."
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Without proper planning, cities across the globe face the threat of overwhelming poverty, limited opportunities for youth, and religious extremism, U.N. Population Fund Executive Director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid told The Associated Press
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Her agency's "State of the World Population 2007" report outlines the rate and scale of urban growth and calls for the policy initiatives to manage it. The agency found current policy initiatives often aim to keep the poor out of cities by limiting migration and cutting lower-income housing. "Cities see poor people as a burden," Obaid said. "They should be seen as an asset."
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"Investing in them in terms of shelter, education and so on would mean you have a good economic force that can work and create even further economic growth coming from cities,"
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"Extremism is often a reaction to rapid and sudden change or to a feeling of exclusion and injustice, and the cities can be a basis for that if they are not well managed," Obaid said. "It's very much an urban phenomenon."
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"My passion is to make sure youth are included in everything we do," Obaid said. "They are the ones always on the move, trying to find different ways of life and better life."
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06-27-2007, 01:34 PM
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It's crap. This theory is worse than global warming as we have data in the evolution of cities since man learned to build. Last time a checked billions already live in cities. And what were people saying during the early 20th? And what did they do about it? They certainly weren't busy doing nothing to expand their cities. San Francisco was rubble and they turned it around completely with new architecture. Cities expand. It's what they do. The figures only look overwhelming because they lump the amount of people into one figure.
06-27-2007, 04:35 PM
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As long as they don't impede too much on my farm land, I don't care where they live. I'd rather have people live in the cities, or on non-profitable farm land, than on some ranch where they barely contribute, or are a nuance.
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