Hopefully, Europe is as resistant to urban change as it is to the technological kind.
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As the world's leading environmental figures gather in Durban, South Africa for the 2011 United Nations Conference on Climate Change ( COP17), CNN asked two urban climate change experts to explain the complex role of cities.
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Dr Stephen Hammer is co-director of the Urban Climate Change Research Network, a consortium of academics and institutions dedicated to the analysis of climate change mitigation, and an adviser to New York City's Energy Policy Taskforce.
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The Narrow Car Company - The Abercynon firm's metre-wide, tandem, two-seater NARO car has the dynamics of a motorbike in a bid to change urban transport.
Local leadership and broader urban renewal efforts helped change that, but so did a movement in mindsets, Lang said.
Set in 1969, Small Things relates the trials of a family caught somewhere between rural and urban, tradition and change.
The objective of World Water Day 2011 is to focus international attention on the impact of rapid urban population growth, industrialization and uncertainties caused by climate change, conflicts and natural disasters on urban water systems.
Even though nothing later comes close to it for enterprise or excitement, "The Grey" remains a genuinely gripping survival story and a refreshing change from stale urban action flicks: "Jaws" on paws.
It turns out that these are all climate-driven employment areas, too -- trends that will grow in demand as climates change because our urban plant life will have greater demands placed on it.
In our case, the support of the mayor has been critical, and as one of the only large urban districts to adopt this change in governance of our schools, I believe that the District of Columbia public school system will be a model for urban school reform.
Radical versus incremental change - how to SWItCH urban water systems to meet current and future challenges?
During the consultations governance challenges in arid and semi-arid areas were discussed and how institutions can be better equipped to deal with risks and uncertainties, emerging out of climate change, population growth, urban-rural tensions and groundwater pollution.
The List of World Heritage in Danger helps draw support for sites that are under threat from climate change, conflict, poaching, urban sprawl etc.
Traditionally they have mostly voted for the BN, but some may now change their minds, especially in urban areas where Ms Ambiga is respected.
And that, of course, is the cultural change that Taylor and the Los Angeles Urban League are most excited about making.
An expert on urban transportation technology, Sperling says the most obvious change consumers can expect in future transportation is increased prevalence of hybrid and pure-electric vehicles.
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The opposition is likely to retain control of at least two of Malaysia's 13 state legislatures and should perform well in urban constituencies where middle-class voters have clamored for change.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) again collected most seats in urban areas.
But none of these policies will change the fundamental cause of inequality between rural and urban areas: massive underemployment in the countryside.
They said its infrastructure would not be able to cope with such a large increase and it would change its character from a village to "an urban sprawl".
The event was the annual conference of the Ontario Urban Small Municipalities association, and much of the talk was about change and adaptation and mounting challenges.
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We do know for a fact that factors as diverse as climate change and aging populations mean that even as the global urban population continues to grow, some cities are shrinking.
The opposition is likely to retain control of at least two of Malaysia's 13 state legislatures and should perform well in urban constituencies where a growing bank of middle-class voters have clamored for political change.
When this all began I never dreamed my work would start a national movement in urban revitalization, or that I would be receiving this incredible Transportation Innovators Champion of Change award from the White House and the Department of Transportation.
My former Urban Institute and Tax Policy Center colleague Gene Steuerle has put together a fascinating time series of spending change by presidency, measured as a share of GDP.
Grupo MeXvi, a leading provider in Mexico of integral solutions for self-construction of low-income homes in rural and semi-urban settings, and FOMEPADE a microfinance institution pioneering micro-mortgagees, are doing their best to change that, starting with millions of Mexicans.
Key themes of SD in the region include among other things poverty alleviation, citizenship, peace, ethics, responsibility in local and global contexts, democracy and governance, justice, security, human rights, health, gender equity, cultural diversity, rural and urban development, economy, production and consumption patterns, corporate social responsibility, environmental protection, climate change, prevention and adaptation, natural resource management, biological and landscape diversity.
The problems of urban driving are painfully evident to everybody who uses a car in a city, but choices are needed to change people's behaviour.
This is a fundamental change in the business equation, enabling much more robust investment in this layer of wireless infrastructure throughout dense urban environments.
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