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Why do cities matter? This is a question @EdgarPieterse is addressing in an input to the @UN Senior Management team today on The Future of Cities.
Answer:
• Central to new forms of growth & economic development (job-rich, low carbon, resource efficient & regenerative)
Answer:
• Central to new forms of growth & economic development (job-rich, low carbon, resource efficient & regenerative)
• Cities & towns are where the majority of population concentrate and this trend will intensify in Africa and Asia over the next 3 decades.
• Cities are the cosmopolitan kitchens where cross-pollination and experimentation generate innovation and new cultural norms.
• Cities are the cosmopolitan kitchens where cross-pollination and experimentation generate innovation and new cultural norms.
• They require and allow for substantive citizenship and political life.
• Counter-intuitively, city economies and demand hold the key to resolve rural poverty and territorial inequalities.
• Counter-intuitively, city economies and demand hold the key to resolve rural poverty and territorial inequalities.
"Amid our entrapment in a politically produced nightmare of rising inequality (dehumanization), environmental destruction and cultural erasure, our task is to develop a 'practical vision' to reimagine identity, political belong(s) and bottom-up fashioning of the future"
He argues for radical localization of supply-chains and distributed (decentralized) & regional infrastructure
systems that ensure urban futures are low-tech, labour intensive and digitally enabled (open source platforms), as well as community owned and driven. #urbanfutures
systems that ensure urban futures are low-tech, labour intensive and digitally enabled (open source platforms), as well as community owned and driven. #urbanfutures
