The biggest risks facing cities -- and some solutions | Robert Muggah
With fantastic new maps that show interactive, visual representations of urban fragility, Robert Muggah articulates an ancient but resurging idea: cities shouldn't ...
TED
Talk Africa - World Cities Day: Urbanization and Africa
October 31st is World Cities Day. Can technological innovations can help address some of the challenges of growing urban populations in Africa? ANCHOR ...
CGTN Africa
The History of Urbanization, 3700 BC - 2000 AD
This map visualizes the history of urban settlements over 6000 years. The data shown in the map comes from a Yale-led study published earlier this month in ...
Max
Rebel Cities: The Urbanization of Class Struggle
Speaker(s): Professor David Harvey Recorded on 10 May 2012 in Old Theatre, Old Building. Given the strong relationship between urbanization and capital ...
LSE
Cities and Climate Change: Making the Links | Sara Hughes | TEDxUofT
Sara's work examines the choices city governments make about climate change, water resources, and waste management, the political and economic factors ...
TEDx Talks
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
The Challenges and Opportunities of Urbanization
Cities, as the physical locus of government and the economy, offer immense development potential as centers of economic opportunity, technology, and the ...
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Cities Changing Their Environment
Professor Karen Seto, Assistant Professor in the urban environment, explains how big cities, especially in China, shape their environment and climate.
YaleUniversity
Housing and Urbanization in Global Cities
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Harvard GSD
Planning for Africa’s Growing Cities
By 2040, more than half of Africa's population will live in cities. What does urbanization mean? What are the benefits and challenges? And how can we plan ...
World Bank
Dr Clos on World Cities Report 2016: Urbanization and Development
UN-Habitat worldwide
Megacities Reflect Growing Urbanization Trend
Read the Transcript: http://to.pbs.org/b6sR86 The capital of the South Asian country Bangladesh, Dhaka, has a population that is booming. However, it stands as ...
PBS NewsHour
A Brief History of U.S. City Planning
The first 200 people will get a 2 month FREE trial of Skillshare here: http://skl.sh/citybeautiful5 I'm on Patreon! Consider supporting this channel: ...
City Beautiful
Urbanisation in China | The Economist
China's citizens are moving from the countryside into cities in record numbers, boosting the economy but making party leaders uneasy Subscribe NOW to The ...
The Economist
Undergraduate Spring Panel: Urbanization and the Growth of Mega-Cities
The rise of "mega-cities" present both unprecedented opportunities and unprecedented challenges. Much work on urbanization has focused on the so-called ...
Becker Friedman Institute at UChicago - BFI
World Cities Day 2019: China charts the way for global urbanization
Cities are the economic engines of the world. An estimated 56 percent of the global population lives in urban areas today, and the number is set to grow ...
CGTN
Murray Bookchin - (3/8) - 'Urbanization Against Cities' - 1993
This is the first half of Bookchin's second day delivering his lectures based upon his book, Urbanization Against Cities (later as 'From Urbanization to Cities'), ...
FreiheitXXI
Urban Geography: Why We Live Where We Do
Sign up for a free month's trial at the Great Courses Plus: http://ow.ly/6u4h304922j Support Wendover Productions on Patreon: ...
Wendover Productions
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
Global urbanization and sustainability in cities
Gerben van Straaten is the CEO of World of Walas. This international company is specialist in Sustainable Urban Development and uses the Earth Charter as ...
Earth Charter International
Chinese neighborhoods turn into 'ghost towns' following rapid urbanization
Now we continue with our special series "Agenda in Action", looking at China's pressing issues and challenges. Urbanization represents a "huge engine" for the ...
CGTN America
The Urbanization Project
The NYU Stern Urbanization Project harnesses the growth of cities to speed up global progress. The world's urban population will more than double between ...
NYU MARRON INSTITUTE OF URBAN MANAGEMENT
Smart Cities: Solving Urban Problems Using Technology
See how smart cities are rising to meet the challenges of rapid urban development. Then discover how to start a career in urban innovation on Linkedin ...
LinkedIn Learning
Urbanization: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad City
The sixth episode of PRI's popular POP 101 series, this video takes a fresh, humorous approach to the demographic issues facing the world today. Be sure to ...
Population Research Institute
Urbanization and the Growth of Cities
Morgan Hoven
Murray Bookchin - (2/8) - 'Urbanization Against Cities' - 1993
This is the second half of Bookchin's first day delivering his lectures based upon his book, Urbanization Against Cities (later as 'From Urbanization to Cities'), ...
FreiheitXXI
Growth, Cities, and Immigration: Crash Course US History #25
In which John Green teaches you about the massive immigration to the United States during the late 19th and early 20th century. Immigrants flocked to the US ...
CrashCourse
Paul Romer on Efficient Urbanization
BIGGER CITIES, BIGGER PROBLEMS? Increasingly, we live on an urban planet, and the pace of urbanization is only accelerating. Cities are engines of ...
Breakthrough Institute
Why Cities Exist
Build your website with Squarespace for 10% off at http://Squarespace.com/HAI Subscribe to Half as Interesting (The other channel from Wendover Productions): ...
Wendover Productions
David Harvey: The Right to the City and Urban Resistance @ Fortaleza (english)
David Harvey's biggest lecture yet! Commenting on the conections undelying the many grassroots resistance experiences drawn um from social movements, ...
TV Boitempo
Better Urbanization for Higher-Quality Growth
http://www.worldbank.org/china - By 2030, up to 70% of the Chinese population--some one billion--will be living in cities. How could China prepare for that?
World Bank
Google Timelapse: Urban Explosion | TIME
Urban Explosion Timelapse Subscribe to TIME ▻▻ http://po.st/SubscribeTIME Get closer to the world of entertainment and celebrity news as TIME gives you ...
TIME
AXA Outlook : Estimating City Growth, Urbanization and Climate-related Risks (...) - Prof. D. Balk
Estimating City Growth, Urbanization and Climate-related Risks in the 21st Century, Prof. Deborah Balk (USA) This century will see the merging of two great ...
AXA ResearchFundLive
Experts: Urbanization Will Spread Housing Crisis Worldwide
More than half of the world's population lives in cities, according to United Nations figures. By the middle of this century, 68 percent of the world will be urbanized ...
VOA News
City dwellers grows amidst continuing disparities in level and pace of urbanization worldwide
United Nations, New York, 25 March 2010 - Hania Zlotnik, Director of the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, holds a press ...
United Nations
Distilled Demographics: Urbanization
A few years ago, it was announced that half the world's population now lives in urban areas. When we think of urbanization, we tend to think of sprawling cities ...
Population Reference Bureau
Cities and Stability: China’s Urbanization with Author Jeremy Wallace
For more programming, see our website: http://www.ncuscr.org China's management of urbanization is an under-appreciated factor in the regime's longevity.
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
David Harvey: The crisis of planetary urbanization
In his most recent trip to Brazil, David Harvey talks about the urban protests dubbed "middle class revolts" that have been taking place all over the world, from ...
TV Boitempo
Robert Buckley - Urbanization and Demographics, the Coordination Problem
The lecture is based on the realization that little attention is being paid to the inexorable increase in urban populations, particularly in very low income countries.
UN-Habitat worldwide
Why China can achieve the largest urbanization in history
The speed, scale, and quantity of urbanization in China are enormous. Forty years ago, less than one-fifth of China's population lived in cities and the rural ...
CGTN
Urbanization and Health in Developing World Cities
Comparative Urban Studies Project Environmental Change and Security Program Africa Program Global Health Initiative After fading from the agenda over the ...
WoodrowWilsonCenter
Urbanization
Growing urbanisation drives creativity to find solutions to problems such as pollution, increasing energy consumption and noise -- ensuring a better quality of city ...
Air Liquide
