Sustainable Cities Network » Climate and Cities program http://www.sustainablecitiesnet.com The Cities are Re-inventing Themselves Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:02:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A Tale of Two Citieshttp://www.sustainablecitiesnet.com/movements/a-tale-of-two-cities/ http://www.sustainablecitiesnet.com/movements/a-tale-of-two-cities/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:05:14 +0000 guido_7 http://www.sustainablecitiesnet.com/?p=1083 Assume a robust global deal on climate and the world’s cities will have to transform their infrastructure, economies and societies in little more than a generation.

Assume uncontrolled emissions growth and they face growing impact from a less hospitable and more volatile climate.

Either way – big changes are on the way. Few cities’ leaders grasp the scale of the challenge, especially in developing countries, where towns and cities will have an additional 1.5bn residents to cope with by 2030.

This new think piece has been prepared as part of the British Council’s Climate and Cities programme working with Global Dashboard . Download the pdf (which has full references).

If you have any comments please get in touch at http://www.globaldashboard.org/

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