Tedros Adhanom

The specter of climate change threatens worsening natural disasters, rapid urbanization, forced migration, and economic hardship for the most vulnerable. Despite significant global advances, inability to effectively address epidemics and health emergencies still prevail and continuously threaten global health security and economic development.

Ethiopian Politician

Antonio Guterres

A refugee in the traditional vision is someone who flees from country to another because of persecution or conflict. But what we're witnessing now more and more is a certain number of mega-trends interacting with one another: population growth, urbanization, food insecurity, water scarcity, climate change, and conflict.

Portuguese Politician

Li Keqiang

Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it's about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security.

Chinese Politician

Jamais Cascio

Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.

American Writer

Annie Lowrey

Urbanization, falling poverty rates, and growing global trade have changed the diets and expanded the waistlines of the world's poor, with processed food and sweetened drinks becoming household staples.

American Journalist

Mick Cornett

This urbanization that's taking place around the world is very real. But if it's people that are seeking an urbanized environment out of desperation, that's not going to be helpful long term.

American Politician

Sarah Parcak

With population pressures, urbanization, and modernization encroaching, we're in a race against time. Why not use the most advanced tools we have to map, quantify, and protect our past?

American Scientist

Ma Yansong

China is a place where you can experience two very contrasting things coexisting. First, the rich, cultural history of the country - and, second, rapid urbanization.

Chinese Architect

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

China's urbanization supported the country's impressive growth and rapid economic transformation.

Indonesian Economist

Kushal Pal Singh

In urbanization, you think big because you are thinking decades ahead.

Indian Businessman

Emphasizes the extensive transformation from a rural to an urban setting, involving construction and population growth.

Scale of Change

Often implies modern infrastructure like technology and utilities being implemented in the newly urban area.

Modernization Implication

Can imply negative aspects, such as overcrowding or pollution, not just growth and development.

Not Always Positive

Highlights the migration aspect, with more people moving from rural to urban areas.

Population Movement

Suggests that urban life is often seen as more attractive or promising than rural living.

City Life Appeal

Associated with changes in employment as economies shift from agriculture to industry and services.

Economic Factors

Implies a shift in values, traditions, and social norms as rural areas become more urban.

Cultural Shift

Can lead to new governance structures and policies to manage increased population and infrastructure needs.

Political Change

 are moving towards creating India as a single market. So there is a form of internal globalization which is happening, which is as important as external globalization. These four factors I believe -- the ones of primary education, infrastructure, urbanization, and single market --

Nandan Nilekani's ideas...

 someone who gets paid, and we tend to assume that it's those professionals who are going to be the ones to help us solve the really big, systemic design challenges that we face like climate change, urbanization and social inequality. That's our kind of working presumption.

Alastair Parvin:...

 It can be used perhaps in other places in the world. So let's look at the other end of the our cities and megacities. Half of the Earth's population lives in cities today. Half a billion of us live in megacities. We are living through an amazing urbanization trend.

Andreas Raptopoulos: No...

 That is how cities think. I've never met a mayor who said to me, "I want my city to be cut off." They know that their cities belong as much to the global network civilization as to their home countries. Now, for many people, urbanization causes great dismay.

How megacities are...

 Two megatrends -- urbanization, we're fast becoming a more urban planet, and climate change -- have been increasingly pointing to cities as a crucial target for innovation. And now around the world in various locations, people have been teaming up

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 You think of, you know, urbanization, consumerism, the workplace, technology. But I think if you cut through those forces, you get to what might be the deeper driver, the nub of the question, which is how we think about time itself.

Carl Honore: In praise...

 behind the plague outbreaks. Their discovery helped further developments in microbiology, medicine, urban planning, and sanitation methods, which led to the treatment and prevention of the disease. Economic expansion, urbanization,

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 urbanization and climate change but here in kyrgyzstan the snow leopards are back and this isolated country now has the highest density of snow leopards anywhere in the world and i'm intrigued to find out why they're doing so well

Snow Leopards: Ghosts in...

 or even desirable to slow down now if you think about how our world got so accelerated the usual suspects rear their heads you think of you know urbanization consumerism the workplace technology but I think if you cut

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 money to do that today's cities need a new plan we need to build new types of systems designed for the modern urban world of rapid urbanization and impending water scarcity and that's where I have good news