Newsblog

UN's New Sustainable City Effort Starts With Asia

Posted by: xamboli, 7. October 2011 - 11:53
Source: http://sustainablecitiescollective.com

Licensed under: Creative Commons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Mumbai Cityscape

Never has the need been greater for integration across urban management, systems, experts, policies and technologies. The world is rapidly becoming more urban, especially in Asia, where hundreds of millions have begun moving to cities.

This massive migration, largest in human history, will produce colossal impacts--including innovation--in energy use, transportation, housing, water and resource use. Economies will be impacted at every scale, especially beyond burgeoning metro areas in national and global markets.

Read whole article