analyse the difference in the awareness among villages, cities and
metropolitan cities.
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1) Rural area or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Cities, towns, and suburbs are classified as Urban areas. Typically, Urban areas have high population density and rural areas have low population density.
2) Rural livelihoods are based upon primary activities like farming and fishing. Urban livelihoods are based upon secondary and tertiary activities like manufacturing and services.
3) Rural livelihood involves living with and being sustained by nature. Urban areas have a large migrant population.
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No two cities are the same. What does your city mean to you?
For Razi, an 18-year-old waiter in Kuala Lumpur, and millions of other aspirational youth in Malaysia, cities are where their dreams for joining the middle class can come true.
For Liao Xianmei, a 45-year-old migrant worker in Chongqing, China, and Fatma and Peter, a Tanzanian couple who moved from their rural home to Dar es Salaam, cities are where they can build a better future for their families.
And for the world’s 65.6 million forcibly displaced people, finding a city of refuge means a chance to regain strength and dignity.
Today, over four billion people around the world – more than 50% of the global population – live in cities. In East Asia and the Pacific alone, for example, cities house 1.2 billion people – almost rivaling the population of India.
And that number is still fast growing, most rapidly in Asia and Africa, as individuals and families continue migrating to urban areas to seek better livelihoods.
Rapid urbanization: Unprecedented challenges
Being such huge magnets for talent and investment, it is no wonder that cities have become the world’s major growth engine, generating more than 80% of the global GDP, while helping hundreds of millions lift themselves out of extreme poverty.
However, Widening income gaps, worsening pollution, and aging buildings and bridges are all telltale signs that today’s cities are struggling to keep up with city dwellers’ growing dreams for a sustainable, prosperous future.
“We are mostly fishermen and few of us have other skills, so when we have an oil spill or plastics in the water, we lose money,” said Stephen Aji, chief of a fishing community located in one of the largest slums in Lagos, Nigeria.
Climate change further complicates the urbanization challenge.
Take a 360 tour of the hurricane-battered small Caribbean nation of Dominica. In 2017, Hurricane Maria destroyed the country’s rainforest, and devastated its tourism and housing sectors. Total damages and losses amounted to $1.3 billion, or 224% of the country’s GDP.
Take a 360 tour of the hurricane-battered small Caribbean nation of Dominica. In 2017, Hurricane Maria destroyed the country’s rainforest, and devastated its tourism and housing sectors. Total damages and losses amounted to $1.3 billion, or 224% of the country’s GDP.
The New Urban Agenda
All is not lost.
But what happens next is up to us.
The good news is that, as the stakes of urbanization are growing higher, so is the global commitment to making urbanization right.
In October 2016, at the once-in-20-year Habitat III conference, countries around the world endorsed the historic New Urban Agenda, which sets a new global standard for sustainable urban development and guides global efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the era of climate change.
Next week, early February 2018, national and city leaders will convene again at the Ninth Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF9) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to move forward with more in-depth discussions around the theme Cities 2030, Cities for All: Implementing the New Urban Agenda.