This transformative shift in human society offers both big challenges and great promise for sustainable development.
On the one hand, emerging cities must avoid the poverty, over-crowding, pollution, and congestion that have plagued many 20th century cities. Beijing’s air pollution problems, now so severe as to be regularly closing down the airport, provide a stark illustration of the downside of breakneck urbanization.
Fonte: Forbes, 15/02/2012
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