Global Cities - Full Documentary
Cities have been for thousands of years the centers of civilization as they have watched empires, kingdoms, governments, and corporations come and go.
Systems Innovation
Major Population Issues in Developed and Developing Countries
Subject:Population Studies Paper: Population Policies.
Vidya-mitra
How Industrialization changed populations and societies 1750-1900
In the period 1750–1900, Industrialization resulted in technological advances and demographic changes that reshaped how humans interact with their ...
LEQ TION
Creating Livable Cities: key patterns of urbanization across developing and emerging economies
Rapid urbanization has provided most cities in the world with opportunities to provide more sustainable, vibrant, and prosperous centers for their citizens.
Inter-American Development Bank
Rural Transition in China | SMU Research
In the past two to three decades, amidst a backdrop of changing food demand, sustained transfer of rural labour into urban jobs, decline of the natural birth rate ...
Singapore Management University
AFRICA'S OVERLOOKED BUSINESS REVOLUTION PART 1
Acha Leke, co-author of the McKinsey Global Institute's Africa's Business Revolution and Mutsa Chironga, co-author and executive at Nedbank discuss the ...
GIBS Business School
23-4: Societal Impacts of Industrialization
23-4: Societal Impacts of Industrialization.
Joseph Prezzavento
Population & Economic Development
Subject: Mass Communication and Journalism Course Name: Public Relations/Corporate Communication Keyword: Swayamprabha.
Ch-05: PRABANDHAN [Social Science - III]
Housing and Urbanization in Global Cities
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Harvard GSD
What is DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION? What does DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION mean?
http://www.theaudiopedia.com What is DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION? What does DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION mean? DEMOGRAPHIC ...
The Audiopedia
Gapminder Video #2 - Urbanization
With Hans Rosling. In this GapCast, Hans Rosling focuses on urbanization. In four minutes he give a short overview over the urban challenge, showing the last ...
Gapminder Foundation
City of the Future: Singapore – Full Episode | National Geographic
With visionary thinkers and innovators as the guides, City of the Future: Singapore dives deep into the latest innovations and technology being created and ...
National Geographic
Making Urbanization Work for Africa
Africa's urban population is set to double within the next 25 years. As the region is still in the early stage of its urbanization process, it has a unique chance to ...
World Bank
THE RATE AND MASS OF GROWTH WITH DAVID HARVEY
In his new work, David Harvey offers a close reading of Volume III of Karl Marx's Capital to distinguish the rate of growth versus the mass of growth.
The People's Forum NYC
Development Economics Update (2019) - Poverty Reduction in Low Income Countries
This development economics revision video covers some of the main causes of continued high levels of extreme poverty in low and middle income countries ...
tutor2u
Making Smart Cities Socially Inclusive | Rakhi Mehra | TEDxBocconiU
Passionate about cities and with a deep love for New Delhi, Rakhi Mehra explains how to implement innovative solutions to complex urban challenges, ...
TEDx Talks
William Bernstein: "The Birth of Plenty" | Talks at Google
William Bernstein's The Birth of Plenty is based upon the premise that mankind experienced virtually zero economic growth from the dawn of time until 1820.
Talks at Google
Mod-01 Lec-02 Sociological approaches
Introductory Sociology by Prof. A.K. Sharma, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,IIT Kanpur.For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in.
nptelhrd
The Urbanization of Happiness and the Decline of Civic Imagination with Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz
Visit: http://www.uctv.tv) Political theorist Fonna Forman and architect-urbanist Teddy Cruz explore the idea of human happiness as it manifests in patterns of ...
University of California Television (UCTV)
Asia Economic Outlook
Fed tightening, rising debt levels and political uncertainty are casting a shadow on the outlook for strong global growth. How can business and policy-makers ...
World Economic Forum
"Urbanisation, migration and the future metropolis" with Prof Michael Keith
Mass migration to cities perpetuates urban-rural economic inequality, and can pose a heavy burden for material and social infrastructure. Professor Michael ...
Oxford Martin School
Why We Came to Halt with so Many Global Sustainability Challenges? | Sepehr Mousavi | TEDxBergen
Our world is going through drastic transitions; challenges such as climate change, depleting resources, skyrocketing population, urbanization and injustice in a ...
TEDx Talks
Mod-01 Lec-38 Social Problems and Theory
Introductory Sociology by Prof. A.K. Sharma, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,IIT Kanpur.For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in.
nptelhrd
Joel Cohen: An Introduction to Demography (Malthus Miffed: Are People the Problem?)
Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ...
Big Think
Investing in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Africa is facing a looming debt crisis, and yet it also needs $1 trillion per year to meet its SDG funding requirements. How can its economies mobilize capital and ...
World Economic Forum
Impact of population growth on environment and society
Subject:Anthropology Paper:Demographic Anthropology.
Vidya-mitra
Why is rural land reform a continuing problem?
With China's huge rural population of around 600 million, why is rural land reform a continuing problem? Why, for almost four decades, have rural issues been ...
CGTN
Classical sociological theory - Marx, Weber, Durkheim
In this lecture, Dr. Tom Rudel overviews three classical sociological theorists – Marx, Weber and Durkheim. He notes that all three are structuralists, but that each ...
sesync annapolis
China 2020: Vision and Challenges II – Economic Development
When the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, its economy was very weak, accounting for less than 1 percent of the world's GDP. In 2019, China's ...
CGTN
Population, Sustainability, and Malthus: Crash Course World History 215
In which John Green teaches you about population. So, how many people can reasonably live on the Earth? Thomas Malthus got it totally wrong in the 19th ...
CrashCourse
Population overload: Are we in danger of outgrowing our planet?
Is the world running out of room? Earth's population could reach 11 billion by 2100. Are we pushing the planet to breaking point? Or are fears of overpopulation ...
Roundtable
Conférence de Martin Wolf - La crise du capitalisme démocratique
Symposium annuel USIAS 2019 Martin Wolf, commentateur économique en chef au Financial Times de Londres. L'alliance entre démocratie libérale et ...
Université de Strasbourg
Session 3A: Climate Change and Population Mobility: Empirical Models and Policy Perspectives
Chair: Elizabeth Fussell, Brown University • Reframing Sea Level Rise and Human Migration, David Wrathall, Oregon State University (presented by E. Fussell) ...
Earth Institute
Is the Constitution Out of Date?
Recorded on August 15, 2016 Hoover Institution fellows Terry Moe and Peter Robinson have a lively discussion on whether the Constitution is outdated and ...
HooverInstitution
CRO Assembly 2011: Nouriel Roubini, NYU
New York University's Nouriel Roubini discusses current risks in the emerging market landscape. . Professor Roubnini was a keynote speaker at the 7th Annual ...
Swiss Re
20. Pandemic Influenza
Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 (HIST 234) Reliable records of influenza, dating back to the 1700s, suggest a pattern of one major pandemic every ...
YaleCourses
The Technology Trap: Learning from the History of Automation (Carl Benedikt Frey)
Is technology destroying or creating jobs? Is today's wave of new technology different from previous historic periods? If it is, what are the key characteristics that ...
Social Europe
Edward Glaeser: The Urban Century – An Urban World (Part 1, lecture)
Edward Glaeser, professor of economics at Harvard University, held this year's Urban Lecture at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala ...
Uppsala universitet
Dominic Barton: Five Trends Reshaping the Global Economy
Dominic Barton, Global Managing Director, McKinsey & Company, highlights the five trends he sees reshaping the global economy: 1. The Great Rebalancing 2.
Stanford Graduate School of Business
UIC 1: Urbanisation - what is it and where is it happening? (AQA GCSE Geography Revision)
Gone is the old filming rig and the LEDs that went with it... now I'm illuminated by proper softbox lighting. Much nicer! Still a bit of glare but I'll take it. It's time to ...
Planet Lacey: Geography Revision
China's Role in the Global Economy: myths and realities
Slides available to download here (pdf): ...
LSE
Population Health: Crash Course Sociology #43
We're continuing our unit on health with a discussion of some of the indicators that help us measure health for different populations. We'll also explore three ...
CrashCourse
