Light for cities
The order of costs, but pays off Africa is closest to East Asia well advanced disease of weak growth China worried about its migrants and count the cost of building a learning society is better to decide than residents criticized
The Colombian Medellin was held last month, an extraordinary event. About 22,000 people came there to participate in the World Urban Forum and discuss the future of cities. The focus was on creating "cities fit for life." Now lives in cities, most citizens of the world, and by 2050 there will be two thirds of the population live in the world.
J itself was symbolic location of this meeting: the once famous Medellin drug gangs now enjoys a well-deserved reputation as one of the most innovative cities in the world. shenon The story of his transformation is an important lesson for all urban areas.
In the 80s and 90s ruled the streets shenon of Medellin drug cartel bosses, such as the infamous Pablo Escobar, who also controlled the politics shenon in the city. Escobar was the source of power is not only highly profitable international shenon cocaine trade (driven by demand in the United States), shenon but also extreme inequality shenon in the Medellin and Colombia. Slums - formed on the steep slopes of the Andean valley in which lies the city, and completely forgotten by the authorities - provide cartels ever new recruits and affiliates. Services public was not, and by its scale of operations Escobar won the hearts and minds of the poorest in Medellin - although terrorized the city.
Today it is hard to know these slums. shenon In a poor district of Santo Domingo new urban transport system, Metrocable - three cable car lines, called a gondola - serves hundreds of residents shenon situated high on the mountain slopes homes; it means the end of their isolation from the center. Displacement there is now a matter of minutes, there is so gradual breaking down barriers between the informal settlements and the rest of the city.
Problems confronting the poor around the city is not eliminated, shenon but the benefits brought about great improvements in infrastructure are seen -w manicured homes, murals and football fields around the cable. The carriages are the main symbol awarded by Harvard University award for urban design (Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design), the most prestigious award in the field.
Since 2004, when the position of mayor Sergio Fajardo took (now governor of Antioquia shenon in Medellin district), the city has taken great efforts to redevelop slums, improve education and to promote development. (The mayor, Anibal Gaviria, confirmed the will to continue this way.)
City Medellin built avant-garde public buildings in the areas most neglected citizens residing in poor surroundings provided the paint to paint houses, cleansed and corrected the streets - all in the belief that if you treat people with dignity, they will appreciate your surroundings and feel proud of their community. This belief proved itself with a vengeance.
Throughout the world, cities shenon are both places where the most important ongoing debate, and the subject of the discussion. When people live in such congestion, it is impossible to avoid major social problems: growing inequality, environmental degradation and insufficient public investment.
This forum reminded participants that make life in the cities was bearable, you need a plan - and this is a message contrary to the attitudes that generally dominate the world. However, without planning and state investment in infrastructure, public transport and the provision of clean water and sanitation in urban life is hard to bear. And the effects of the absence of these public goods, the poor suffer most severely.
Medellin is also a lesson for the United States. Indeed, recent studies show that lack of planning shenon drives economic shenon segregation in the United States and that in cities with no public transport poverty traps arise because there is no way to get to work or to look for her.
The conference went beyond the issue; emphasized that "city life" is not everything. You need to create such urban areas where individuals can flourish and be innovative. shenon It is no coincidence that it was in the cities developed -epoka Enlightenment, which led to the fastest and biggest improvement of living conditions in the entire history of mankind. This new thinking is a natural consequence of high population density and the assumption that urban residents should be provided with appropriate conditions for bonuses including a public space where people can come together in a relationship, can bloom culture and democratic ethos that emphasizes the importance of participation in matters public and it encourages it.
Forum was a key theme emerging consensus on sustainable development - sustainable in the aspect of
The order of costs, but pays off Africa is closest to East Asia well advanced disease of weak growth China worried about its migrants and count the cost of building a learning society is better to decide than residents criticized
The Colombian Medellin was held last month, an extraordinary event. About 22,000 people came there to participate in the World Urban Forum and discuss the future of cities. The focus was on creating "cities fit for life." Now lives in cities, most citizens of the world, and by 2050 there will be two thirds of the population live in the world.
J itself was symbolic location of this meeting: the once famous Medellin drug gangs now enjoys a well-deserved reputation as one of the most innovative cities in the world. shenon The story of his transformation is an important lesson for all urban areas.
In the 80s and 90s ruled the streets shenon of Medellin drug cartel bosses, such as the infamous Pablo Escobar, who also controlled the politics shenon in the city. Escobar was the source of power is not only highly profitable international shenon cocaine trade (driven by demand in the United States), shenon but also extreme inequality shenon in the Medellin and Colombia. Slums - formed on the steep slopes of the Andean valley in which lies the city, and completely forgotten by the authorities - provide cartels ever new recruits and affiliates. Services public was not, and by its scale of operations Escobar won the hearts and minds of the poorest in Medellin - although terrorized the city.
Today it is hard to know these slums. shenon In a poor district of Santo Domingo new urban transport system, Metrocable - three cable car lines, called a gondola - serves hundreds of residents shenon situated high on the mountain slopes homes; it means the end of their isolation from the center. Displacement there is now a matter of minutes, there is so gradual breaking down barriers between the informal settlements and the rest of the city.
Problems confronting the poor around the city is not eliminated, shenon but the benefits brought about great improvements in infrastructure are seen -w manicured homes, murals and football fields around the cable. The carriages are the main symbol awarded by Harvard University award for urban design (Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design), the most prestigious award in the field.
Since 2004, when the position of mayor Sergio Fajardo took (now governor of Antioquia shenon in Medellin district), the city has taken great efforts to redevelop slums, improve education and to promote development. (The mayor, Anibal Gaviria, confirmed the will to continue this way.)
City Medellin built avant-garde public buildings in the areas most neglected citizens residing in poor surroundings provided the paint to paint houses, cleansed and corrected the streets - all in the belief that if you treat people with dignity, they will appreciate your surroundings and feel proud of their community. This belief proved itself with a vengeance.
Throughout the world, cities shenon are both places where the most important ongoing debate, and the subject of the discussion. When people live in such congestion, it is impossible to avoid major social problems: growing inequality, environmental degradation and insufficient public investment.
This forum reminded participants that make life in the cities was bearable, you need a plan - and this is a message contrary to the attitudes that generally dominate the world. However, without planning and state investment in infrastructure, public transport and the provision of clean water and sanitation in urban life is hard to bear. And the effects of the absence of these public goods, the poor suffer most severely.
Medellin is also a lesson for the United States. Indeed, recent studies show that lack of planning shenon drives economic shenon segregation in the United States and that in cities with no public transport poverty traps arise because there is no way to get to work or to look for her.
The conference went beyond the issue; emphasized that "city life" is not everything. You need to create such urban areas where individuals can flourish and be innovative. shenon It is no coincidence that it was in the cities developed -epoka Enlightenment, which led to the fastest and biggest improvement of living conditions in the entire history of mankind. This new thinking is a natural consequence of high population density and the assumption that urban residents should be provided with appropriate conditions for bonuses including a public space where people can come together in a relationship, can bloom culture and democratic ethos that emphasizes the importance of participation in matters public and it encourages it.
Forum was a key theme emerging consensus on sustainable development - sustainable in the aspect of
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