#Urbanization

Richard Humphries

RichardHumphri1

Insights into a draft @ECA_OFFICIAL report on African urbanization: Cities as gateways for Africa’s regional economic integration https://www.uneca.org/egm-state-urbanization-africa "AfCFTA is expected to increase trade between Afric

Will Wilkinson 🌐

willwilkinson

Here's what I'm embarrassed by, pundit-wise. I didn't take my own research on the correlation between population density and party vote share seriously enough.https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-density-divide-urbanization-polari

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

This is exactly backwards. Urbanization was driven by desire to escape oppressive togetherness of small town/village life. The primary draw of cities in history has been escaping your tribe. The

Sridhar Vembu

svembu

1/ One of the psychological and spiritual effects of concentration of talent (which is what large scale urbanization ultimately is about) is the "rat race". Large urban areas don't give

𝕮𝖍𝖎

chigrl

What are the global macro drivers for energy transition? The same conduits for any macro change: 1. Demographic 2. Economic3. Socio-Cultural4. Technological5. Ecological6. Politicallet's take a look 1. Population growth

Evolutionary Applications

EvolAppJournal

The Special Issue “Evolution in Urban Environments” is online! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17524571/2021/14/1edited by L. Miles @lindsay_s_miles, E. Carlen @E_Carlen, K. Winchell @Kmwinchell, and M. Johnson @evoecolab #conservat

akhivae

akhivae

Roman Catholics need to study Pentecostalism. It exploded while Catholicism atrophied and now it's not hard to imagine a future where South America has more practicing Pentecostal/Evangelical type Christians than

Anil K Sood

AnilKSood5

#Urbanization & #EconomicGrowth https://intelligence.weforum.org/topics/a1Gb0000000LiPhEAK?tab=publications"600 cities generate close to 60% of the world’s economic output - numbers that are expected to remain roughly constant ov

Imar Y. Koutchoukali 🌐 🐿

koutchoukalimar

Just over a year ago, @PdxInteractive released the grand strategy game "Imperator Rome". Because I have nothing better to do on a Thursday, I decided to make a THREAD dedicated

cap season

anansispawn

THIS JUST IN: Art is NOT the issue but how a lot of people use art & the art they choose to produce is the problem. It’s always technique heavy

The Long View 🍥

HayekAndKeynes

Curious how many of the commodity price spikes are due to supply chain interruptions from sidelined workers. Clearly the Biden agenda and reopening are going to usher in strong growth

Śrīkānta

shrikanth_krish

These numbers might surprise English speaking elites in very large towns, who work for MNCs, and pontificate on twitterThis is the real India.https://twitter.com/indiainpixels/status/1287663685452697602 Even in a supposedly "westernize

Gregory Randolph

gregfrandolph

Chandan Deuskar (@CD_planner) & I have co-authored a newly published paper on global #urbanization patterns and their implications for #planning in the Journal of Planning Education and Research (@JPER7). A

Tom Goodwin

tomfgoodwin

I did a tweet in Mar 2020 about how insane it is that some people think "people will leave the city""Urbanization is a 6000 year trend that wasn't going to

Madeleine Fullard

mfullard2

So @helenzille has said the post-1994 democratic govt has passed more racial laws than the apartheid era did. Here's a handy thread from the TRC report Volume 1 on pre-1994

Dr. Sweta Chakraborty

swetac

We're entering a "pandemic era." We must act aggressively on climate to prevent future pandemics from occurring more frequently.How do they connect? Immunologist Dr. @ChristineRJames and I wrote an op-ed

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