CIAO DATE: 04/2010
October 2009
The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs
The current global economic crisis demonstrates the growing inter-connectedness and its impacts on the economic welfare and political stability of both rich and poor countries—the impact of which are greater in cities. It is important to understand the role of cities in the world, both as sites for the most impacts of global change and as providing solutions to some of these problems. Today, the challenge of urban change has been transformed into the policy and institutional economic, geographic, sustainable, and political but in the end it is manifest in the streets. The world has become urban.
Resource link: Speculating on Change: Four Paradoxes of Our Urban Future [PDF] - 198K