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• If its worth doing, its worth doing on a huge scale

  
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  The guiding ideology of the Communist elite in China has seemed to be control from the top down. Socialism has always come in second to the authoritarian impulse. Historically, thats the Chinese way (in theory). Everything from civil society to the military is run the by a tiny elite. Now may be the time to dust ...
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• Seattle Planting Country’s Largest Urban Food Forest, For Free Food

  
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  If you live in Seattle, it won’t be long before you can pick your own fruits and veggies right in the city – and it won’t cost you a thing. Set to be the country’s largest forageable food space, the Beacon Food Forest is located on seven acres of land donated by Seattle Public Utilities. It will contain a ...
  5 days ago

• New ‘innovation centre’ for London

  
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  Work continues in earnest to prepare London for hosting a new multi-million pound centre for innovation that will facilitate conferences and exhibitions aimed at furthering developments in combating the problems of urbanisation in the world. Most of the world’s people now live in urban areas. The Future Cities ...
  6 days ago

• The Atomization of Society

  
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  By Anjum Altaf One of my insights into Pakistan’s socioeconomic evolution was due inadvertently to my father when, as a student of economics, I encountered his changed post-retirement pattern of time use. It was the nature of the change that was surprising. I saw him rise early to monitor the water level in the ...
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• Charts The China Bulls Do Not Want You To See

  
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  zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 06/11/2013 10:51 As  trade sanctions rise , ghost cities crumble, shadow banking surges, and the  PBOC loses control of the most centrally-planned economy in the world amid their own version of ‘peak debt’ , it appears yet another pillar of the ...
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• Can Pakistan Avert Demographic Doom?

  
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  The original version of this article, by Michael Kugelman, appeared on The Diplomat. On May 11, Pakistan’s Election Day, approximately  60 percent  of eligible voters went to the polls. This figure far exceeded the  44 percent  who turned out for Pakistan’s previous election in 2008. Media reports have ...
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• Analyst: Lima’s Real-Estate Boom Failing to Address Housing Deficit

  
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  Despite an onslaught of new apartment projects in Lima the demand for housing in the Peruvian capital isn’t necessarily being met, according to a former high-ranking government official. David Ramos, the former deputy minister of Housing and Urbanization, said that the housing deficit in Lima is mainly in the ...
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• India’s villagers flock to the cities

  
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  Disintegration of rural life threatens an urban overload, writes Asia Sentinel’s Neeta Lal The quintessential Indian village, eulogized in Bollywood movies and Indian folklore as a Utopian vision, is fast turning into a liability for millions of the country’s rural poor, who are migrating to the cities in an ...
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• Poverty and Human Rights

  
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  By Anjum Altaf Is poverty a violation of human rights? I was asked recently to speak on the subject and faced the following dilemma: If I convinced the audience it was, would that imply the most effective way to eliminate poverty would be to confer human rights on the poor? Two questions follow immediately: First, ...
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• Youth Farming and Aquaculture Initiatives Aim to Reduce Food and Political Insecurity in Senegal

  
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  The 2011-12 West African food crisis led to riots in Senegal and Burkina Faso as well as food insecurity for millions of rural and urban poor across the region. The crisis emerged from a number of factors, including instability in northern Mali , increases in global food prices , and low rainfall in the ...
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• Finally, clean up plans for Musi river

  
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  The authorities have finally decided to check the additional sewage inflow into the Musi river catchment area. Towards that end, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) wants to construct 10 Sewerage Treatment Plants (STPs) in order to … Continue reading → The post Finally, ...
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• Child labour in China

  
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  Whats the current situation of this problem in China? What measures are being taken to eradicate it? How does the public react when they witness this in their real life? This week a satirical newspaper published this picture. Are these children actually Chinese or from other countries? How common is it? Please ...
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• The Goat From Krakow

  
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  Life In PolandThere is in the canon of Jewish humour an old joke about a family living in close quarters with a goat. One family actually tried that, George Jochnowitz writes—his father’s: “Whether or not grazing was possible on Ulica Dietla, an apartment must have been a tough place for humans and a goat to ...
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• Agriculture, Structural Change and the Urban Imperative in African Development

  
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  This is a guest post by Owen Cylke. Mr. Cylke is a development professional and a retired senior foreign service officer with USAID. There has been increased discussion of late on repositioning development economics , structural issues, and the role of the state in the thinking and investments of developing and ...
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• Enterprise Acquires Chicago Car Sharing Service IGO

  
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  On May 28, Enterprise Holdings announced that it had acquired Chicago-based IGO CarSharing under terms not disclosed to the public. So is carsharing going away? The post Enterprise Acquires Chicago Car Sharing Service IGO appeared first on Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit .
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• Measuring Community Resilience: Implications for Development Aid

  
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  ‘ Toward Resilience ’ is a series on the meaning of global resilience and vulnerability today. A staggering amount of development dollars – one in three, in fact – are lost due to natural disasters and crises. Certain communities are less affected than others by such disasters; they are more ...
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• China’s Plans for Faster Urbanization: Show Me the Numbers

  
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  China’s plans for faster urbanization have attracted a lot of attention. But Beijing isnt saying how fast a pace is in the government’s blueprint and how much money it will spend.
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• Comparing Small Towns in South Asia

  
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  A Citizens’ Initiative By Anjum Altaf The presence of international borders that are closed is unfortunate in many ways. However, to a social scientist they present the possibility of fascinating natural experiments in which locations close to each other but separated by the border can be studied to advantage. ...
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• Li Seeks Reform With Urbanization Proposal

  
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  Sources tell Reuters that Chinese Premier Li Keqiang rejected an urbanization proposal from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) , citing concerns over the risks of another debt-funded spending binge at the local government level: To fund the urbanization plan, local governments would issue ...
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• Urbanites help sustain Japan’s historic rice paddy terraces

  
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  Rural–urban cooperation and branding initiatives aim to reinvigorate a traditionally important rice-growing region. Urbanites help sustain Japan’s historic rice paddy terraces is a post from: OurWorld 2.0
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