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UN's World Urban Forum debates urbanization, social inequality (People's Daily)
The effects of urbanization and social inequality is under the microscope at the United Nations Human Settlements Program's (UN-Habitat) fifth World Urban Forum Thursday. According to a report released earlier in the day, Latin America is the most urbanized region on the planet with about 80 percent of its inhabitants living in cities. In Brazil, about 87 percent of the population lives in urban ...
Rural lifespan 'outlasts urban' (BBC News)
The life expectancy of people living in rural parts of Scotland is several years longer than in urban areas, figures show.
Cohousing booms as option in urban living (Boston Globe)
Jenise Aminoff didn’t own a car when she and her husband moved into Cambridge Cohousing, a 41-unit urban housing development near Porter Square, in 1999. One major attraction for the couple was its commitment to “green’’ construction and eco-friendly living, most of its residents opting to get around the city by bicycle and public transportation.
Living in the country adds years for men in Scotland (Times Online)
The benefits of living in the country were reinforced yesterday by figures showing that men in rural areas can expect to live more than three years longer than their urban counterparts.
Intentional Communities as Resource-Sharers: Cohousing Booms as Option in Urban Living (CommonDreams.org)
by Joseph P. Kahn Jenise Aminoff didn’t own a car when she and her husband moved into Cambridge Cohousing, a 41-unit urban housing development near Porter Square, in 1999. One major attraction for the couple was its commitment to “green’’ construction and eco-friendly living, most of its residents opting to get around the city by bicycle and public transportation. read more
It's hard work living a satoyama pastoral idyll (The Japan Times Weekly)
For the past year, Japan's Environment Ministry and Tokyo-based United Nations University have been aggressively promoting the satoyama model for "realizing sustainable rural society living in harmony with nature."
Kenya : Urban Refugees Need Legal Clarity, Says Report (AllAfrica.com)
Nairobi — Tens of thousands of refugees living in Kenyan cities will continue to suffer police harassment, lack of protection, violation of their human rights and discrimination, as long as the government fails to properly implement recent legislation, says a report by the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG), International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Refugee Consortium of Kenya (RCK).
Economic Equality Still Century-Old Urban League’s Top Priority (The Chronicle of Philanthropy)
The jobs measure passed by Congress last week does not do enough to raise employment prospects in poor communities, Marc H. Morial, chief of the Urban League, said Wednesday in unveiling the annual study.
A cool change in urban ‘green’ living (Malaya)
As concern for the environment grows, people have been called to action on many levels - in their personal lives, in the workplace and in their social groups.
News Americas (Aljazeera)
In Peru it is estimated that up to 80 per cent of the country's population could be living in urban areas by 2030. With half of Peru's economic activity based in the capital, Lima, it will put enormous pressure on the city's already floundering services.
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